What are good auditory rehab apps/websites/tools?

AngelSound – Angel Sound^TM is a PC-based interactive listening rehabilitation program developed by TigerSpeech Technology and freely distributed by Emily Shannon Fu Foundation. It is an interactive auditory training and hearing assessment program that lets you take control of your listening rehabilitation independently or self-administer your functional hearing test at home. You gain practice in discriminating and identifying sounds and speech components through a series of self-paced modules that cover different aspects of the listening process. The level of difficulty is automatically adjusted to match your developing listening skills. The program provides audio-visual feedback, highlighting areas you can continue to practice. The training and testing results can be shared with your clinician or therapist, who can provide further advice on your rehabilitation.

i-AngelSound – An iPhone/iPad app that includes many of the features of the PC version.

Sound Explorer – A simplified mobile edition of Angel Sound program that is suitable for anyone but is great for children to learn the association between sound and events (such as words, images or events).

Digits in Noise Test – A program that can be used to measure your ability to recognize digits (or speech) in the presence of background noise.

Melodic Contour Identification – Music perception and appreciation remains a challenge for many hearing impaired people. A closed-set melodic contour identification “MCI” task has recently been used to quantify the listeners’ ability to recognize musical melodies. For the MCI task, test stimuli are melodic contours composed of 5 notes of equal duration whose frequencies corresponded to musical intervals. The interval between successive notes in each contour is varied between 1-6 semitones; the root note of the contours can also be varied. Nine distinct musical contours are generated for each interval and root note condition. This program provides a unique melodic contour identification testing and training for anyone who is interesting at improving their awareness of melodies, thereby improving their music appreciation.

Concatenated Sentence Recognition in Noise – Concatenated sentence recognition in noise (10×5) test is to measure the user’s ability to recognize sentences in the background noise using a closed-set approach. Five-word sentences are generated in real-time using concatenation methods. Sentences with desired SNR will be presented and the user must choose the correct words. If the answer is correct, sentences with lower SNR will be presented. The lowest SNR that a person can recognize 50% of all trials is that person’s sentence recognition threshold.

Hear Coach – A suite of listening games developed by Starkey Hearing Technologies. (for iPhone)

AB Clix – From Advanced Bionics, this app is designed to help practice listening for word differences in both quiet and noise. (for iPad)

AB Listening Adventures – From Advanced Bionics, this app provides children with a fun way to practice listening for words in sentences. For ages 4-10. (for iPad)

VocAB Scenes – From Advanced Bionics, this app helps children learn common vocabulary and question forms. For ages 4-10. (for iPad )

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