Loss and Psychoacoustics Projects have been undertaken by NAL to better understand hearing loss and psychoacoustics. Understanding the nature of hearing impairment is a necessary step towards effective ways of helping hearing-impaired people. Fitting Hearing aid wearers do not hear perfectly. Therefore the challenge to develop improved hearing aids and improved methods for fitting to help individuals continues.
Studies meet the broad objective of providing better hearing for hearing aid wearers.
NAL maintains a strong program of projects. Several of these projects combine the strengths of NAL research expertise and the clinical expertise within Australian Hearing. These include Investigations of effects of aiding on speech recognition and sound localisation abilities. Evaluation of new features of advanced hearing aids, such as multiple memories or multiple forms of signal limiting. Studies of fitting non-linear amplification.