SBIR/STTR Research Award
COMPLETE HEARING AID SELECTION AND EVALUATION
Award amount
$49,912Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- COMMUNICATION DISORDERS TECHNOLOGY, INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- K1V8ZUNLURE3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS SUFFER FROM SENSORINEURAL HEARING IMPAIRMENT, A TYPE OF HEARING LOSS FOR WHICH THE USE OF A HEARING AID IS THE PRIMARY MEANS OF REHABILITATION. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE AMONG THOSE OVER AGE 65, OF WHOM 25% TO 45% HAVE SIGNIFICANT HEARING LOSS. THE PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A DEVICE USED FOR STATE-OF-ART COMPLETE HEARING AID SELECTION AND EVALUATION (CHASE).IN PHASE I OF THIS PROJECT, THE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE NEEDED FOR CHASE WILL BE DEVELOPED AND A PROTOTYPE WILL BE CONSTRUCTED.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- A national screening test for hearing, administered by telephone.
- Speech Perception Assessment and Training System for Aphasia Rehabilitation
- Telephone screening test for hearing using three-digit sequences in noise.
- Learn to Listen: Second Langauage Speech Perception Traininng System for English
- Speech Perception Assessment and Training System
Research funding history
18 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2013). Reported award amounts total $4,867,028. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Department of Defense