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  1. High-Pass and Low-Pass Filtered Digits-in-Noise Tests for Estimating Frequency-Specific Hearing Loss

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  2. Efficacy of Single-Session Intervention of Tinnitus Educational Counseling: A Systematic Review

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, February 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Megan Knoetze

  3. Auditory Acclimatization in New Adult Hearing Aid Users: A Registered Systematic Review of Magnitude, Key Variables, and Clinical Relevance

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  4. Impact of Preschool Hearing Screening in Low-Income Communities: Program Outcomes and Caregiver Perspectives

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, March 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Tara Odendaal

  5. Perspectives on Hearing Aid Cost and Uptake for Prescription and Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Users

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, August 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Megan Knoetze

  6. User Perspectives on Improving Hearing Aids

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, May 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Nabeelah Desai

  7. Digits-in-Noise Test as an Assessment Tool for Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids

    Article • Audiology Research, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  8. Perceptions of Hearing Health Care: A Qualitative Analysis of Satisfied and Dissatisfied Online Reviews

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, March 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Leigh Biagio-de Jager, Sanchia van Bruggeb, Rebecca Bennett

  9. Hearing help-seeking, hearing device uptake and hearing health outcomes in individuals with subclinical hearing loss: a systematic review

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  10. Service delivery approaches related to hearing aids in low- and middle-income countries or resource-limited settings: A systematic scoping review

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, January 2024, PLOS

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  11. Reasons for hearing aid uptake in the United States: a qualitative analysis of open-text responses from a large-scale survey of user-perspectives

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  12. Factors influencing hearing aid use, benefit and satisfaction in adults: a systematic review of the past decade

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  13. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Hearing Aid Benefit and Satisfaction: Content Validity and Readability

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Ph.D. Sarah Granberg, KV NISHA, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  14. Factors Associated With Hearing Aid Outcomes Including Social Networks, Self-Reported Mental Health, and Service Delivery Models

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, September 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Bopane Mothemela

  15. Mobile Health Hearing Aid Acclimatization and Support Program in Low-Income Communities: Feasibility Study

    Article • JMIR Formative Research, August 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  16. Comparing Hearing Aid Outcomes in Adults Using Over-the-Counter and Hearing Care Professional Service Delivery Models

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, June 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  17. Combined screening of early childhood development, hearing and vision by community health workers using mHealth tools in a low-income community

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  18. Extended High-Frequency Audiometry for Ototoxicity Monitoring: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, March 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Leigh Biagio-de Jager, Dr Lucia Jane Stevenson

  19. Hearing Healthcare Professionals’ Views about Over-The-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aids: Analysis of Retrospective Survey Data

    Article • Audiology Research, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  20. Digits in noise testing in a multilingual sample of Asian adults

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  21. Person centered care: preference, experience and predictors in speech-language pathology and audiology students

    Article • Speech Language and Hearing, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  22. Mobile Health Hearing Aid Acclimatization and Support Program in Low-Income Communities: Feasibility Study (Preprint)

    Article • January 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  23. Advancing Equitable Hearing Care: Innovations in Technology and Service Delivery

    Article • Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, January 2023, Karger Publishers

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  24. International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA) translation into isiXhosa

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  25. Effectiveness of an over-the-counter self-fitting hearing aid compared to an audiologist-fitted hearing aid: A randomized clinical trial

    Article • December 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  26. mHealth-Supported Hearing Health Training for Early Childhood Development Practitioners: An Intervention Study

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  27. The one-up one-down adaptive (staircase) procedure in speech-in-noise testing: Standard error of measurement and fluctuations in the track

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2022, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  28. Remote Monitoring of Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients Using Digits-in-Noise Self-Testing

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, September 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  29. Sensitivity of the antiphasic digits-in-noise test to simulated unilateral and bilateral conductive hearing loss

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  30. Community-based adult hearing care provided by community healthcare workers using mHealth technologies

    Article • Global Health Action, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  31. m-Health Applications for Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, August 2022, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  32. Children with Conductive Hearing Loss Fitted with Hearing Aids: Outcomes and Caregiver Experiences in South Africa

    Article • International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, July 2022, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  33. Corrigendum: Decentralising paediatric hearing services through district healthcare screening in Western Cape province, South Africa

    Article • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, July 2022, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  34. Perceptions of Telehealth Services for Hearing Loss in South Africa’s Public Healthcare System

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  35. Online Reviews of Hearing Aid Acquisition and Use: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, June 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  36. A Machine Learning Approach to Screen for Otitis Media Using Digital Otoscope Images Labelled by an Expert Panel

    Article • Diagnostics, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  37. A Scoping Review on the Use of the Parents Evaluation of Developmental Status and PEDS: Developmental Milestones Screening Tools

    Article • Journal of Early Intervention, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  38. Changes in audiologists’ mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: the supportive role of professional associations, workplaces and hearing device manufacturers

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  39. Satisfaction with hearing assessment feedback using the My Hearing Explained tool: client and audiologist perceptions

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  40. Digital Approaches to Automated and Machine Learning Assessments of Hearing: Scoping Review

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, February 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  41. Improving the Efficiency of the Digits-in-Noise Hearing Screening Test: A Comparison Between Four Different Test Procedures

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Tasneem Dambha

  42. Outcomes of children with sensorineural hearing loss fitted with binaural hearing aids at a pediatric public hospital in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  43. Corrigendum: Occupational noise and age: A longitudinal study of hearing sensitivity as a function of noise exposure and age in South African gold mine workers

    Article • South African Journal of Communication Disorders, November 2021, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  44. Community-Based Ototoxicity Monitoring for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa: An Evaluation Study

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  45. Online Consumer Reviews on Hearing Health Care Services: A Textual Analysis Approach to Examine Psychologically Meaningful Language Dimensions

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, September 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Rebecca Bennett, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  46. Experiences With Hearing Health Care Services: What Can We Learn From Online Consumer Reviews?

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, September 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  47. Hearing Aid Consumer Reviews: A Linguistic Analysis in Relation to Benefit and Satisfaction Ratings

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, September 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  48. Digital Technology for Remote Hearing Assessment—Current Status and Future Directions for Consumers

    Article • Sustainability, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  49. Evaluating the PEDS:DM Developmental Screening Tool in Zulu and Northern Sotho

    Article • Language Matters, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  50. International survey of audiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic: use of and attitudes to telehealth

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  51. Digital Approaches to Automated and Machine Learning Assessments of Hearing: Scoping Review (Preprint)

    Article • August 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  52. International survey of audiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects on mental well-being of audiologists

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  53. Referral Criteria for Preschool Hearing Screening in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Comparison of Protocols

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, July 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Susan Eksteen

  54. Decentralising paediatric hearing services through district healthcare screening in Western Cape province, South Africa

    Article • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, June 2021, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  55. International survey of audiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects on the workplace

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  56. Listening Effort in School-Age Children With Normal Hearing Compared to Children With Limited Useable Hearing Unilaterally

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, June 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  57. Hearing aid acquisition and ownership: what can we learn from online consumer reviews?

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  58. Predictors of hearing technology use in children

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  59. Community-Based Hearing and Vision Screening in Schools in Low-Income Communities Using Mobile Health Technologies

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Michelle Manus, Renate Olinger

  60. Validation of teleaudiology hearing aid rehabilitation services for adults: a systematic review of outcome measurement tools

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  61. Is Phonological Awareness Related to Pitch, Rhythm, and Speech-in-Noise Discrimination in Young Children?

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, January 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Prof Mia Le Roux

  62. Digital Proficiency Is Not a Significant Barrier for Taking Up Hearing Services With a Hybrid Online and Face-to-Face Model

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, December 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque

  63. Validation of the Brief International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) core set for hearing loss: an international multicentre study

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  64. Mhealth hearing screening for children by non-specialist health workers in communities

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  65. Telehealth tinnitus therapy during the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK: uptake and related factors

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  66. Profile of childhood hearing loss in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, October 2020, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  67. Teleaudiology hearing aid fitting follow-up consultations for adults: single blinded crossover randomised control trial and cohort studies

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Karina Tao, Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  68. Characteristics and Help-Seeking Behavior of People Failing a Smart Device Self-Test for Hearing

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, September 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque, Danielle Schönborn

  69. Effect of music instruction on phonological awareness and early literacy skills of five- to seven-year-old children

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  70. Does Otitis Media Affect Later Language Ability? A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Samuel Calder

  71. Pure-tone audiometry without bone-conduction thresholds: using the digits-in-noise test to detect conductive hearing loss

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  72. Listening Effort in Native and Nonnative English-Speaking Children Using Low Linguistic Single- and Dual-Task Paradigms

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  73. Exploring the Knowledge and Needs of Early Childhood Development Practitioners from a Low-Resource Community

    Article • Early Childhood Education Journal, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  74. eHealth Technologies Enable more Accessible Hearing Care

    Article • Seminars in Hearing, April 2020, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  75. Patient Uptake, Experience, and Satisfaction Using Web-Based and Face-to-Face Hearing Health Services: Process Evaluation Study

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, March 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  76. Field test of the Rapid Assessment of Hearing Loss survey protocol in Ntcheu district, Malawi

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  77. Occupational noise and age: A longitudinal study of hearing sensitivity as a function of noise exposure and age in South African gold mine workers

    Article • South African Journal of Communication Disorders, March 2020, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  78. The International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI) – a new tool for describing and reporting interventions in audiology

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  79. Rationale and feasibility of a combined rapid assessment of avoidable blindness and hearing loss protocol

    Article • PLOS One, February 2020, PLOS

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  80. Accuracy and Reliability of Smartphone Self-Test Audiometry in Community Clinics in Low Income Settings: A Comparative Study

    Article • Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  81. Extended high-frequency hearing enhances speech perception in noise

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Lina Motlagh Zadeh, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  82. Do Smartphone Hearing Aid Apps Work?

    Article • The Hearing Journal, November 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  83. Performance and Reliability of a Smartphone Digits-in-Noise Test in the Sound Field

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, October 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  84. Mobile applications to detect hearing impairment: opportunities and challenges

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, September 2019, WHO Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  85. Hearing care across the life course provided in the community

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, August 2019, WHO Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  86. Supporting hearing health in vulnerable populations through community care workers using mHealth technologies

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  87. Patient Uptake, Experience, and Satisfaction Using Web-Based and Face-to-Face Hearing Health Services: Process Evaluation Study (Preprint)

    Article • August 2019, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  88. Improving Sensitivity of the Digits-In-Noise Test Using Antiphasic Stimuli

    Article • Ear & Hearing, August 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  89. Improving Sensitivity of the Digits-in-Noise Test using Antiphasic Stimuli

    Article • June 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  90. Hearing and vision screening for preschool children using mobile technology, South Africa

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, June 2019, WHO Press

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  91. Detecting developmental delays in infants from a low-income South African community: comparing the BSID-III and PEDS tools

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  92. Monitoring Hearing in an Infectious Disease Clinic with mHealth Technologies

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, June 2019, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  93. Looking Back to Look Ahead

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Jackie L Clark

  94. Prioritized Surveillance of Young At-risk South African Children: An Evaluation of the PEDS Tools Referral and Response Characteristics

    Article • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, January 2019, Project Muse

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  95. Hearing loss in preschool children from a low income South African community

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, December 2018, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  96. A Smartphone National Hearing Test: Performance and Characteristics of Users

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, November 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  97. Innovation in the Context of Audiology and in the Context of the Internet

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, November 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  98. Characteristics, behaviours and readiness of persons seeking hearing healthcare online

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque

  99. Prevalence of ear disease and associated hearing loss among primary school students in the Solomon Islands: Otitis media still a major public health issue

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, October 2018, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  100. Prevalence of otitis media and risk-factors for sensorineural hearing loss among infants attending Child Welfare Clinics in the Solomon Islands

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  101. Hearing healthcare in remote or resource-constrained environments

    Article • The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  102. Teleaudiology Services for Rehabilitation With Hearing Aids in Adults: A Systematic Review

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Dona Jayakody, Karina Tao, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  103. The South African English Smartphone Digits-in-Noise Hearing Test: Effect of Age, Hearing Loss, and Speaking Competence

    Article • Ear & Hearing, July 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  104. Prevalence of hearing loss at primary health care clinics in South Africa

    Article • African Health Sciences, June 2018, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  105. Erratum: Wideband acoustic immittance for assessing middle ear functioning for preterm neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit

    Article • South African Journal of Communication Disorders, June 2018, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  106. Early detection of developmental delays in vulnerable children by community care workers using an mHealth tool

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Van der Merwe, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  107. Evaluating a smartphone digits-in-noise test as part of the audiometric test battery

    Article • South African Journal of Communication Disorders, May 2018, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  108. Modernising speech audiometry: using a smartphone application to test word recognition

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  109. Does otitis media in early childhood affect later behavioural development? Results from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study

    Article • Clinical Otolaryngology, April 2018, Wiley

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, ANGELA JACQUES

  110. Improving Equitable Access to Hearing Care

    Article • The Hearing Journal, April 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  111. Knowledge and attitudes of early childhood development practitioners towards hearing health in poor communities

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  112. A public health approach to pediatric hearing impairment in the Pacific Islands

    Article • Journal of Global Health, January 2018, Edinburgh University Global Health Society

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  113. Community-based hearing screening for young children using an mHealth service-delivery model

    Article • Global Health Action, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Leigh Biagio-de Jager

  114. Towards low cost automated smartphone- and cloud-based otitis media diagnosis

    Article • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  115. Self-Reported Hearing Loss and Pure Tone Audiometry for Screening in Primary Health Care Clinics

    Article • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  116. Extended High-Frequency Smartphone Audiometry: Validity and Reliability

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, January 2018, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  117. Parental knowledge and attitudes to childhood hearing loss and hearing services in the Solomon Islands

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  118. Enhancing Ear and Hearing Health Access for Children With Technology and Connectivity

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, October 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  119. Associations between cardiovascular disease and its risk factors with hearing loss-A cross-sectional analysis

    Article • Clinical Otolaryngology, August 2017, Wiley

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  120. Diagnostic accuracy of a general practitioner with video-otoscopy collected by a health care facilitator compared to traditional otoscopy

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  121. Wideband acoustic immittance for assessing middle ear functioning for preterm neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit

    Article • South African Journal of Communication Disorders, June 2017, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  122. Developmental screening: predictors of follow-up adherence in primary health care

    Article • African Health Sciences, May 2017, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  123. Automated Smartphone Threshold Audiometry: Validity and Time Efficiency

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, March 2017, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  124. Smartphone-Based Hearing Screening at Primary Health Care Clinics

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  125. Smartphone-based National Hearing Test Launched in South Africa

    Article • The Hearing Journal, January 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  126. Referral criteria for school-based hearing screening in South Africa: Considerations for resource-limited contexts

    Article • Health SA Gesondheid, December 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  127. Developmental Screening—Evaluation of an m-Health Version of the Parents Evaluation Developmental Status Tools

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, December 2016, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  128. International Survey of Audiologists' Attitudes Toward Telehealth

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, October 2016, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  129. Asynchronous interpretation of manual and automated audiometry: Agreement and reliability

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Rebecca Bennett

  130. Predictors of health-related quality of life in adult cochlear implant recipients in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  131. Affordable headphones for accessible screening audiometry: An evaluation of the Sennheiser HD202 II supra-aural headphone

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  132. mHealth Improves Access to Community-based Hearing Care

    Article • The Hearing Journal, August 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  133. Smartphone hearing screening in mHealth assisted community-based primary care

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  134. Overview of a public health approach to pediatric hearing impairment in the Pacific Islands

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  135. Clinical validation of automated audiometry with continuous noise-monitoring in a clinically heterogeneous population outside a sound-treated environment

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  136. Hearing loss in urban South African school children (grade 1 to 3)

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  137. Newborn hearing screening at a community-based obstetric unit: Screening and diagnostic outcomes

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  138. Predictors of pediatric cochlear implantation outcomes in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  139. Development and validation of a smartphone-based digits-in-noise hearing test in South African English

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  140. Protective benefit of predominant breastfeeding against otitis media may be limited to early childhood: results from a prospective birth cohort study

    Article • Clinical Otolaryngology, April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, ANGELA JACQUES

  141. Diagnosis of hearing loss using automated audiometry in an asynchronous telehealth model: A pilot accuracy study

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  142. Prevalence and nature of communication delays in a South African primary healthcare context

    Article • South African Journal of Child Health, March 2016, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  143. Otitis Media Diagnosis for Developing Countries Using Tympanic Membrane Image-Analysis

    Article • EBioMedicine, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  144. Smartphone threshold audiometry in underserved primary health-care contexts

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  145. Clinical Validity of hearScreen™ Smartphone Hearing Screening for School Children

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  146. Distribution Characteristics of Air-Bone Gaps

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  147. Diagnostic Hearing Assessment in Schools: Validity and Time Efficiency of Automated Audiometry

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, January 2016, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  148. Digits-in Noise Hearing Test

    Article • January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  149. Tele-intervention for children with hearing loss: A comparative pilot study

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  150. Accuracy of Remote Hearing Assessment in a Rural Community

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, November 2015, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  151. Pure-tone audiometry outside a sound booth using earphone attentuation, integrated noise monitoring, and automation

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  152. Risks associated with communication delays in infants from underserved South African communities

    Article • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, September 2015, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  153. Self-reported hearing loss and manual audiometry: A rural versus urban comparison

    Article • Australian Journal of Rural Health, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Rebecca Bennett

  154. Outcomes with OAE and AABR screening in the first 48h—Implications for newborn hearing screening in developing countries

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  155. Distribution characteristics of normal pure-tone thresholds

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  156. Developmental screening in South Africa: comparing the national developmental checklist to a standardized tool

    Article • African Health Sciences, March 2015, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  157. Profound childhood hearing loss in a South Africa cohort: Risk profile, diagnosis and age of intervention

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  158. Does parental experience of the diagnosis and intervention process differ for children with auditory neuropathy?

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  159. Tympanometry Screening Criteria in Children Ages 5-7 Yr

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, November 2014, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  160. The ICF core sets for hearing loss project: Functioning and disability from the patient perspective

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  161. Prevalence and risk factors for parent-reported recurrent otitis media during early childhood in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study

    Article • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel, ANGELA JACQUES

  162. Remote evaluation of video-otoscopy recordings in an unselected pediatric population with an otitis media scale

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  163. Does the human immunodeficiency virus influence the vestibulocollic reflex pathways? A comparative study

    Article • The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, August 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  164. Smartphone hearing screening with integrated quality control and data management

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  165. Why parents refuse newborn hearing screening in South Africa?

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  166. National survey of paediatric audiological services for diagnosis and intervention in the South African private health care sector

    Article • South African Journal of Communication Disorders, June 2014, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  167. Video-otoscopy recordings for diagnosis of childhood ear disease using telehealth at primary health care level

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  168. Recommendations for the medical evaluation of children prior to adoption in South Africa

    Article • South African Medical Journal, June 2014, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  169. Paediatric otitis media at a primary healthcare clinic in South Africa

    Article • South African Medical Journal, May 2014, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  170. The ICF core sets for hearing loss project: International expert survey on functioning and disability of adults with hearing loss using the international classification of functioning, disability, and health (ICF)

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  171. Technology for hearing loss – as We Know it, and as We Dream it

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  172. Why parents refuse newborn hearing screening and default on follow-up rescreening—A South African perspective

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  173. Vestibular involvement in adults with HIV/AIDS

    Article • Auris Nasus Larynx, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  174. Validation of remote mapping of cochlear implants

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, March 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Professor Robert H Eikelboom

  175. An auditory profile of sclerosteosis

    Article • The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  176. Noise and age-related hearing loss: A study of 40 123 gold miners in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  177. Diagnostic Pure-Tone Audiometry in Schools: Mobile Testing without a Sound-Treated Environment

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, November 2013, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  178. Seasonal changes in burrow geometry of the common mole rat (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)

    Article • The Science of Nature, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  179. Self-Reported Hearing Loss in Baby Boomers from the Busselton Healthy Ageing Study: Audiometric Correspondence and Predictive Value

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, June 2013, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  180. False air-bone gaps at 4 kHz in listeners with normal hearing and sensorineural hearing loss

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  181. Validity of Automated Threshold Audiometry

    Article • Ear & Hearing, May 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  182. Clinical validation of the AMTAS automated audiometer

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  183. Asynchronous Video-Otoscopy with a Telehealth Facilitator

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, April 2013, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  184. Hearing-aid assembly management among adults from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: Toward the feasibility of self-fitting hearing aids

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  185. Childhood hearing loss and risk profile in a South African population

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  186. Validity of Automated Threshold Audiometry

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Robert H Eikelboom, Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  187. Validity of diagnostic pure-tone audiometry without a sound-treated environment in older adults

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  188. Auditory and otological manifestations in adults with HIV/AIDS

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  189. Early detection of infant hearing loss in the private health care sector of South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  190. Efficacy of a community-based infant hearing screening program utilizing existing clinic personnel in Western Cape, South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  191. Hearing profile of gold miners with and without tuberculosis

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, November 2011, BMJ

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  192. Systematic review of vestibular disorders related to human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

    Article • The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, July 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  193. Clinical Status of the Auditory Steady-State Response in Infants

    Article • Seminars in Hearing, May 2011, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  194. Validity of Diagnostic Computer-Based Air and Forehead Bone Conduction Audiometry

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  195. The development of an Afrikaans test for sentence recognition thresholds in noise

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  196. Intercontinental hearing assessment – a study in tele-audiology

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  197. A Systematic Review of Telehealth Applications in Audiology

    Article • Telemedicine and e-Health, March 2010, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  198. International classification of functioning, disability, and health core sets for hearing loss: A discussion paper and invitation

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  199. Telehealth in audiology: The need and potential to reach underserved communities

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya, Maurice Mars

  200. Hearing health-care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa – a role for tele-audiology

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya, Maurice Mars

  201. Effect of prolonged contralateral acoustic stimulation on transient evoked otoacoustic emissions

    Article • Hearing Research, August 2009, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  202. Early hearing detection and intervention in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  203. Sentence recognition in noise: Variables in compilation and interpretation of tests

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  204. Auditory steady-state responses to bone conduction stimuli in children with hearing loss

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  205. The Need for Standardization of Methods for Worldwide Infant Hearing Screening: A Systematic Review

    Article • The Laryngoscope, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya

  206. Auditory steady-state response and auditory brainstem response thresholds in children

    Article • European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  207. EHDI Africa:Advocating for infants with hearing loss in Africa

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  208. Early hearing detection and intervention services in the public health sector in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  209. Maternal views on infant hearing loss and early intervention in a South African community

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  210. Auditory pathology in cri-du-chat (5p-) syndrome: phenotypic evidence for auditory neuropathy

    Article • Clinical Genetics, August 2007, Wiley

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  211. Newborn hearing screening in a South African private health care hospital

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  212. Auditory steady-state responses for estimating moderate hearing loss

    Article • European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  213. Progress towards early detection services for infants with hearing loss in developing countries

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya

  214. High frequency immittance for neonates: a normative study

    Article • Acta Oto-Laryngologica, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  215. A novel service delivery model for infant hearing screening in developing countries

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  216. Aided auditory steady-state responses in infants

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  217. Infant hearing screening at immunization clinics in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  218. Globalization of Infant Hearing Screening: The Next Challenge before JCIH?

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, April 2006, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Dr. Bolajoko O. Olusanya

  219. Audiology in South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  220. Predicting Pure-Tone Thresholds with Dichotic Multiple Frequency Auditory Steady State Responses

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, January 2005, American Academy of Audiology

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  221. Auditory Steady-State Responses for Children With Severe to Profound Hearing Loss

    Article • Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, May 2004, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  222. Establishing normal hearing with the dichotic multiple-frequency auditory steady-state response compared to an auditory brainstem response protocol

    Article • Acta Oto-Laryngologica, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel

  223. Estimations of auditory sensitivity for young cochlear implant candidates using the ASSR: preliminary results

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor De Wet Swanepoel