SKULL BONE HELMET

The acoustic properties of the skull OF children with specific language disorders and how they might affect hearing were investigated. Broadband noise was isolated throw 2 procedures first by all tests in the audiology room and second by a tailored isolated helmet with six bone mics attached to skull gaps and spectrally analyzed using a Fast Fourier Transform and in 1/3-octave bands. Energetic peaks were found centered near 63 and 125 Hz, and all on the left side of the skull (e.g., range greater than 10 dB around 900 Hz). Acoustic patterns from each skull were subsequently compared with air and bone conduction sensory thresholds. Individual skull patterns reliably correlated with bone conduction thresholds, but not air conduction thresholds, indicating a possible mediating role of the skull to hearing.



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