- Brons Inge, Houben Rolph, Dreschler Wouter A. Perceptual effects of noise reduction with respect to personal preference, speech intelligibility, and listening effort Ear and hearing 2013;34 (1):29-41 [PubMed]
- Dreschler Wouter A., Keidser Gitte, Convery Elizabeth, Dillon Harvey Client-based adjustments of hearing aid gain: the effect of different control configurations Ear and hearing 2008;29 (2):214-227 [PubMed]
- Boymans Monique, Goverts S. Theo, Kramer Sophia E., Festen Joost M., Dreschler Wouter A. Candidacy for Bilateral Hearing Aids: A Retrospective Multicenter Study Journal of speech, language, and hearing research 2009;52 (1):130-140 [PubMed]
- Leensen M. C. J., Van Duivenbooden J. C., Dreschler W. A. A retrospective analysis of noise-induced hearing loss in the Dutch construction industry International archives of occupational and environmental health 2011;84 (5):577-590 [PubMed]
- Verbeek Jos H., Kateman Erik, Morata Thais C., Dreschler Wout, Sorgdrager Bas Interventions to prevent occupational noise induced hearing loss Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) 2009;2009 (3):CD006396 [PubMed]
Prof. Dreschler , head of the dept. of Clinical & Experimental Audiology of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, earned his PhD thesis in 1983 at the Free University of Amsterdam. The focus of his research is in psychoacoustical tests of the pathological ear and in auditory rehabilitation with heariung instruments and cochlear implants. Special emphasis is given to problems in the working environment, including the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.
Employment
1977-1980 Scientist at the dept. of Experimental Audiology of the Free University in Amster¬dam (Head: Prof.Dr. R. Plomp) to conduct the thesis work. The title of the Ph.D thesis was "Relations between psychophysical data and speech perception for hearing impaired subjects".
1980-1987 Head of the Dept of Clinical Audiology in the Academic Medical Centre, which is part of the ENT-department. In this department the main concerns are patient-care, tea¬ching and scientific research on clinical audiology.
1990-2003 Head of the Dept. of Functional Assessment ENT, which consists of the depart-ments of Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology, Vestibulolo¬gy, and Facialis Patholo¬gy.
2001-2003 Interim head of the Department of ENT.
1994- Professor in the Clinical and Experimental Audiology, University of Amsterdam
Memberships:
American Auditory Society (AAS)
American Society of Acoustics (ASA)
American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA)
Dutch Society of Acoustics (NGA)
Dutch Society of Audiology (NvA)
Dutch Society of Clinical Physicists (NVKF)
Dutch Society of E.N.T. (KNO-vereniging)
German Audiological Society (DGA)
International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA)
International Society of Audiology (ISA).
Responsibilities:
Board member of the Dutch Foundation of Hearing (Nationale Hoorstichting)
Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Dutch Foundation of Hearing (Nationale Hoorstichting)
Board member of StAr (Stichting Audiciensregister)
Board member of NOAH (Nationaal Overleg Audiologische Hulpmiddelen)
Prices
In 2005 awarded with the Förderpreis 2005 of the Stiftung Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutscher Hörgeräte Akustiker.
Collaborations National
NCVB (Hearing at Work)
Audiology VUMC (Hearing at Work)
Audiology LUMC (Prevention of hearing loss)
Audiology ErasmusMC (AZOS project)
Audiological centres of the FENAC (PACT-projects)
University of Nijmegen (HearClip)
Collaborations International
University of Oldenburg (D)
University of Linköping (S)
ISVR (UK)
National Acoustics Laboratories (AUS)
Prof. MEng PhD W.A. Dreschler (Clinical & Experimental Audiology)
1. Otology and Audiology: Otological projects focus on different aspects of middle ear surgery and implantable hearing devices: bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA) and cochlear implants (CI).
2. Prevention of hearing loss: We conduct several studies on the damaging effects of ototoxicity and noise. Special focus is on the role of oto-acoustic emissions as an early indicator for the sensitivity of the ear for hearing loss due to ototoxic agents or noise.
3. Auditory profile: The projects within this theme cover a number of psychophysical tests, that have been developed to understand the supra-threshold behaviour of the ear for different auditory tasks in communication: e.g. speech perception, discrimination, spatial hearing. The projects are related to loudness perception, auditory filtering, and (the modelling of) speech perception.
4. Rehabilitation: In the field of auditory rehabilitation the main emphasis is on fitting techniques. In addition, there are several projects that evaluate the effects of advanced signal processing in hearing aids, e.g. noise reduction and directionality. Usually, we apply a mixture of laboratory tests and field trials.
5. Hearing at work: For hearing-impaired people that experience problems at work we will develop new tests and methods to make a detailed and well-structured analysis of the problems, related to the match of (reduced) auditory capacities and auditory demands (at work).
Research group website www.ac-amc.nl
Faculty
MEng PhD P. Brienesse
PhD F.A. Ebbens
E. van Spronsen
Postdocs
PhD M. Boymans
PhD I. de Ronde-Brons
MEng PhD A.C.H. Houben
PhD M.C.J. Leensen
E.A.R. Theunissen
Others
BEng L. Korossy
MSc M.P. van Geleuken
- AMC
- MED-EL Deutschland GmbH
- Stichting Heinsius-Houbolt Fonds