• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.311-323
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• 2021

Objective: The disabled are in a blind spot for obtaining information on drugs, and the pharmacies' counseling on drug use is centered on non-disabled people. Few studies have investigated the current statuses of drug use by type of disability. The purpose of this study is to understand the drug use by type of disability and by life cycle of visually impaired and hearing impaired in Korea. Methods: The study participants consisted of 16 people with visually impairments, 12 people with hearing impairments. One in-depth interview was conducted per participant, and each interview was recorded and documented. Results: Common barriers against safe medication and medical service uses across disability types are 'lack of consideration and service for the disabled, limited access to medical facilities due to disability, limited access to information regarding medication use, psychological anxiety about drug use and side effects, and inconvenience regarding COVID-19 epidemic. The specific factors were 'difficulties in identifying proper medicines and following prescribed dosages' in the case of visually impaired, and 'problems with sign language interpretation system' for the hearing impaired. Conclusion: Disabled people are hindered from using medicines properly due to various factors. Based on the content derived from this study, it is necessary to eliminate the inhibition factors and devise specific measures for the safety of each type of disorder such as developing a method for medication counseling considering disabilities and establishing communication support systems.

• 정보교육학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2010

청각장애인은 청각 손실로 인해 나이가 많아질수록 언어의 이해력과 표현력이 점점 지체된다. 따라서 그들의 유일한 의사소통의 통로인 읽기 능력의 향상을 위해 최근 관심을 받고 있는 2Bi(Bilingual-Bicultural Approach) 접근 모형을 활용하고, 컨텐츠의 구성은 책을 읽고 이해하는 방법 중 질문 생성 전략을 활용하여 모바일 학습 시스템을 설계 및 구현 하였다. 본 시스템의 특징은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 상호 유기적으로 관련된 두 교육과정의 반복과 차이를 통해 올바른 문자 언어 사용법을 익힌다. 둘째, 글을 읽고 질문을 만들어 답을 해 보는 활동을 통해 문장 이해력을 높이도록 학습 내용을 구성 하였다. 셋째, 학습자의 수준에 따라 언제 어디서나 짧은 시간에 개별 선택 학습이 가능하도록 하였다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.70-78
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• 2021

청각정보는 시각에 비해 방향에 제한을 받지 않으므로 자동차 내에서 긴급한 알림이나 경고의 목적으로 활용된다. 그러나 청각장애 운전자는 청각정보를 인지할 수 없으므로 이를 대체하기 위해 다양한 시각화 방법이 시도되고 있다. 청각정보를 시각화할 때는 시각에 집중되는 인지과부하를 방지하기 위해 중요한 정보만을 선별해서 제공하여야 하며, 이를 위해서는 자동차 내 청각정보의 유형 분석이 우선되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 청각장애 운전자의 운전상황 관찰을 통해 자동차 내에서 경험하는 청각정보를 수집하였다. 수집된 33가지의 청각정보는 전문가 그룹에 의한 개방적 카드소팅을 통해 12개의 그룹으로 분류되었으며, 그룹 간 상대적 중요도 비교를 통해 4개의 계층으로 분석하였다. 제시된 자동차 내 청각정보 유형은 청각정보를 시각 또는 촉각으로 변환하여 표시할 때 중요한 정보를 선별하기 위한 가이드 라인으로서 활용이 가능하다. 본 연구는 청각장애 운전자를 대상으로 일상에서의 실제 운전상황 관찰에 의한 사용자 경험 분석이 이루어졌다는 데 의의가 있다.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2004

Hearing aids play an very important role in aural rehabilitation for hearing impaired person who could not be medically treated. Especially, hearing aids with dynamic range compression (level dependent frequency response: LDFR) method concentrated dynamic output range of receiver into the narrowing dynamic range of sensorineural hearing impaired person. Thus, if aided hearing threshold level is improved and uncomfortable loudness level rises, then the users of hearing aids are favored with extended dynamic range. This study aims to evaluate audiological benefits in dynamic range compression hearing aids. To achieve this, pure tone and speech audiometry were examined to 15 children and 3 adults with narrow dynamic range moderate-to-severe binaural sensorineural hearing loss.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.94-102
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a hearing impairment simulator considering reduced frequency selectivity of the hearing impaired, and verify it's performance through experiments. The reduced frequency selectivity was embodied by spectral smearing using linear prediction coding(LPC). The experiments are composed of 4 kinds of tests; pure tone test, speech reception threshold(SRT) test, and word recognition score(WRS) test without spectral smearing and with spectral smearing. The experiments of the hearing impairment simulator were performed with 9 subjects who have normal hearing. The amount of spectral smearing was controlled by LPC order. The percentile score of WRS test without smearing is $89.78{\pm}2.420%$. The scores of WRS with 24th LPC order and with 8th LPC order are $88.00{\pm}3.556%$ and $83.78{\pm}2.123%$ respectively. It is verified that WRS score is lowered by decreasing LPC order. This is a reasonable result considering that spectral smearing is getting heavier according to decreasing LPC order. It is confirmed that spectral smearing using LPC simulates the reduced frequency selectivity of the hearing impaired and affects the clearness of speech reception.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.732-743
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• 2007

Background noise is one of the major complaints of not only hearing impaired persons but also normal listeners. This paper describes the results of two experiments in which speech recognition performance was determined for listeners with normal hearing and sensorineural hearing loss in noise environment. First, we compared speech enhancement algorithms by evaluation speech recognition ability in various speech-to-noise ratios and types of noise. Next, speech enhancement algorithms by reducing background noise were presented and evaluated to improve speech intelligibility for sensorineural hearing impairment listeners. We tested three noise reduction methods using single-microphone, such as spectrum subtraction and companding, Wiener filter method, and maximum likelihood envelop estimation. Their responses in background noise were investigated and compared with those by the speech enhancement algorithm that presented in this paper. The methods improved speech recognition test score for the sensorineural hearing impaired listeners, but not for normal listeners. The results suggest the speech enhancement algorithm with the loudness compression can improve speech intelligibility for listeners with sensorineural hearing loss.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2009년도 정보 및 제어 심포지움 논문집
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• pp.129-131
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• 2009

Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects among infants. Most hearing-impaired children are not diagnosed until one to three years of age, which is too late to treat for normal speech and language development. If a hearing impairment is identified and treated in its early stage, child's speech and language skills could be comparable to his or her normal-hearing peers. In this study, we applied the 'Fsp' method to distinguish between normal and impaired hearing. We have developed a battery-operated portable A - ABR(automated auditory brain stem response) system that automatically detects hearing impairment for neonates or infants in a nursery room, as well as in a sound-proof room. We partially validated the accuracy of the system in five normal-hearing adults.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2015

청력의 결여나 결손이 생기면 회화 음이나 환경 음을 청취하는 것이 어려우므로 언어 감각, 성격 등에 문제가 발생한다. 이러한 청각장애인들을 위하여 특별하게 발음 교정 교육을 할 수 있는 응용 프로그램을 설계하고 구현하였다. 시간과 장소에 제약이 없이 사용할 수 있도록 스마트폰 앱 형태로 제작하였고, 청각장애인의 발음 교정 실태를 고려하여 발음 습득 순서에 따라 난이도 순 훈련을 제공한다. 기본 발음 연습, 단어 발음 연습을 할 수 있고, 이에 대한 기록을 통하여 연습률과 성공률을 확인할 수 있다. 또한, 전면카메라를 통한 자가 발음 교정이 가능하도록 하여 발음이 향상되도록 하였다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.85-96
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of articulatory intervention using visual phonics to improve the speech intelligibility of children with impaired hearing. The subjects of the study were five hearing impaired children. As per the results of the UTAP articulation tests, five phonemes with the most frequent errors were selected for each child and a total of 10 sessions were provided. The methodology involved analyzing vowel space and related measures (vowel space area, vowel articulatory index, formant centralization ratio, and F2i/F2u ratio) before and after the visual phonics intervention. After the articulation intervention, every child's speech intelligibility improved, their vowel space area was widened, the FCR value decreased, and the F2ratio value increased. These results show that the use of visual phonics through symbolic images and hand clues has a positive effect in terms of improving the speech intelligibility of children with impaired hearing.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.240-242
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• 1996

In this paper, we proposed a method of a hearing aid suitable for the sensorineural hearing impaired. Generally as the sensorineural hearing impaired have narrow audible ranges between threshold and discomfortable level, the speech spectrum may easily go beyond their audible range. Therefore speech spectrum must be optimally amplified and compressed into the impaired's audible range. The level and frequency of input speech signal are varied continuously. So we have to make compensation input signal for frequency-gain loss of the impaired, specially in the frequency band which includes much information. The input sigaal is divided into short time block and spectrum within the block is calculated. The frequency-gain characteristic is determined using the calculated spectrum. The number of frequency band and the target gain which will be added input signal are estimated. The input signal within the block is processed by a single digital filter with the calculated frequency-gain characteristics. From the results of monosyllabic speech tests to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, the scores of test were improved.