Wong, Lena Lai-Nar BA, MA (Calif State), Ph.D (Queensland); CCC-A; FAAA

Associate Professor

Lena is an Associate Professor in Audiology in this Division. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Taipei National College of Nursing, Taiwan; and Guest Professor at Nanjing Normal School for Special Education. She was formerly a research assistant/clinical audiologist at the House Ear Institution, USA

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Research/Clinical Interests

Her research interest is mainly in development of outcome measures, and how these measures can be applied to outcome evaluation of hearing aid and cochlear implantation. Her clinical interests are in hearing aid fitting and evaluation of hearing disorders.

Recent Publications

Wong, L. L. N., & Cheng, L. K. (in press, 2009). Quality of life in older Chinese-speaking adults with hearing impairment. Disability and Rehabilitation.

Wong, L. L. N., Chan, J. C. Y., & Soli, S. D. (in press, 2009). Development and application of the Hearing In Noise Test. .

Wong, L. L. N., Hickson, L., & McPherson, B. (2009). Satisfaction with hearing aids:  a consumer research perspective. International Journal of Audiology, 48(7), 405-427.

Wong, L. L. N., Ciocca, V., Vandali, A. E., Luk, B., Ip, V, W, K., Murray, B., Yu, H. C., & Chung, I. (2008). Speech intelligibility using various cochlear implant speech coding strategies. International Journal of Audiology, 47(6), 337-347.

Soli, S. D., & Wong, L. L. N. (2008). Assessment of Speech Intelligibility in Noise with the Hearing In Noise Test. International Journal of Audiology, 256-361.

Wong, L. L. N., & Soli, S. D. (2008). The Cantonese version of the Hearing In Noise Test (CHINT). International Journal of Audiology, 47(6), 388-390.

Wong, L. L. N., Huang, V. M., & Soli, S. D. (2008). The Taiwanese Mandarin version of the Hearing In Noise Test (MHINT-T). International Journal of Audiology, 47(6), 391-392.

Wong, L. L. N., Liu, S., Han, N., & Soli, S. D. (2008). The Mainland Mandarin version of the Hearing In Noise Test (MHINT-M). International Journal of Audiology, 47(6), 393-395

Wong, L. L. N., Cheung, C. M. K., & Wong, E. (2008). Comparison of hearing thresholds obtained using pure-tone behavioral audiometry, the Cantonese Hearing in Noise Test (CHINT) and cortical evoked response audiometry. Acta-Otolaryngologica, 128(6), 654-660.

Wong, L. L. N., Liu, S., Han, N., Huang, V. M., & Soli, S. D. (2007). Development of two versions of the Mandarin Hearing In Noise Test (MHINT). Ear & Hearing, 28(2 Suppl.), 70-74.

Wong, L., Ho, A., Chua, E., & Soli, S. (2007). Cantonese Speech Intelligibility Index. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(4), 2350-2361.

Yeung, N. K. K., & Wong, L. L. N. (2007). Prediction of Hearing Thresholds: Comparison of Cortical Evoked Response Audiometry and Auditory Steady State Response Audiometry Techniques. International Journal of Audiology, 46, 17-25.

Wong, L. L. N., Samman, N., Ng, I. H. Y., & Yau, H. (2005). Patulous Eustachian tube secondary to cleft palate surgery. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 63, 1374-1376.

Wong, L. L. N., & Soli, S. D. (2005). Development of the Cantonese Hearing in Noise Test (CHINT). Ear & Hearing, 26(3), 276-289.

Wong, L. L. N, Soli, S. D., Liu, S., & Han, N. (2005). Development of two versions of Chinese Hearing In Noise Test: the Cantonese and Mandarin Hearing In Noise Test. Chinese Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 12, 1, 55-60.

Wong, L., Hickson, L., and McPherson, B. (2004). Hearing aid expectations among Chinese first-time users: Relationships to post-fitting satisfaction. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology, 26, 53-69. 

Tang, T. P. Y., McPherson, B., Yuen, K. C. P., Wong, L. L. N. & Lee, J. S. M. (2004). Auditory neuropathy/auditory dys-synchrony in school children with hearing loss: frequency of occurrence. Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 68(2), 175-83.

Project to be added: Design of a model to use test results with a reference noise to predict speech understanding performance in real-life situations.

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