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List of works by De Wet Swanepoel

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in June 2007

A systematic review of telehealth applications in audiology

scientific article published on March 2010

Accuracy of Remote Hearing Assessment in a Rural Community

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Advancing Equitable Hearing Care Through Innovations in Technology and Service-Delivery

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Aided auditory steady-state responses in infants

scientific article published in June 2007

An auditory profile of sclerosteosis

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

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

scientific article

Asynchronous interpretation of manual and automated audiometry: Agreement and reliability

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Asynchronous video-otoscopy with a telehealth facilitator

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Audiology in South Africa.

scientific article published in May 2006

Auditory and otological manifestations in adults with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published on 8 October 2012

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

scientific article published on October 2007

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

scientific article published on 17 June 2008

Auditory steady-state responses for children with severe to profound hearing loss

scientific article published in May 2004

Auditory steady-state responses for estimating moderate hearing loss

scientific article published on 9 May 2007

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

scientific article published on 28 October 2008

Automated Smartphone Threshold Audiometry: Validity and Time Efficiency

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2022

Characteristics, behaviours and readiness of persons seeking hearing healthcare online

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Childhood hearing loss and risk profile in a South African population

scientific article published on 23 December 2012

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

scientific article published in 2022

Clinical Validity of hearScreen™ Smartphone Hearing Screening for School Children

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Clinical validation of the AMTAS automated audiometer

scientific article published on 3 April 2013

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on March 2017

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

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

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

scientific article published on January 2016

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

scientific article

Diagnostic pure-tone audiometry in schools: mobile testing without a sound-treated environment

scientific article published in November 2013

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 3 August 2021

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

scientific article published in 2021

Distribution Characteristics of Air-Bone Gaps: Evidence of Bias in Manual Audiometry

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

Distribution characteristics of normal pure-tone thresholds

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

scientific article published in March 2018

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

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

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

scientific article

EHDI Africa: advocating for infants with hearing loss in Africa

scientific article published in January 2008

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

scientific article published on 3 March 2012

Early hearing detection and intervention in South Africa.

scientific article published on February 2009

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

scientific article published in January 2008

Editorial

Effect of prolonged contralateral acoustic stimulation on transient evoked otoacoustic emissions

scientific article published on 3 May 2009

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

scientific article published on 11 February 2012

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in July 2004

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

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

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Globalization of infant hearing screening: the next challenge before JCIH?

scientific article published in April 2006

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published on 11 December 2009

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

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Hearing profile of gold miners with and without tuberculosis

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

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

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

High frequency immittance for neonates: a normative study

scientific article published in January 2007

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

scientific article published in 2022

Infant hearing screening at immunization clinics in South Africa

scientific article

Intercontinental hearing assessment - a study in tele-audiology

scientific article published on 10 May 2010

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

scientific article published in 2022

International Survey of Audiologists' Attitudes Toward Telehealth

scientific article

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

scientific article published in April 2010

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

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

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

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

scientific article published on 11 November 2014

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

scientific article published on 5 March 2016

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

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

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

scientific article published in March 2014

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

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

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in 2023

Predicting pure-tone thresholds with dichotic multiple frequency auditory steady state responses

scientific article published in January 2005

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

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Predictors of hearing technology use in children

scientific article published in 2021

Predictors of pediatric cochlear implantation outcomes in South Africa

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

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

scientific article published on 9 October 2014

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

scientific article published on 19 May 2018

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

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

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

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

scientific article published in November 2015

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

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

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

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 24 June 2014

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

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

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

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Self-reported hearing loss in baby boomers from the Busselton Healthy Ageing Study: audiometric correspondence and predictive value

scientific article published in June 2013

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

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Smartphone hearing screening in mHealth assisted community-based primary care

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Smartphone hearing screening with integrated quality control and data management

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Smartphone threshold audiometry in underserved primary health-care contexts

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Smartphone-Based Hearing Screening at Primary Health Care Clinics

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Smartphone-based National Hearing Test Launched in South Africa

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

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

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

scientific article published on 05 July 2011

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

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

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

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

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

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Telehealth in audiology: the need and potential to reach underserved communities

scientific article published on March 2010

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

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

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).

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

The ICF core sets for hearing loss project: functioning and disability from the patient perspective

scientific article published in November 2014

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

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

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

scientific article published on 22 November 2010

The need for standardization of methods for worldwide infant hearing screening: a systematic review

scientific article published on October 2008

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

scholarly article by Hermanus C. Myburgh et al published January 2018 in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Tympanometry screening criteria in children ages 5-7 yr.

scientific article published on November 2014

Validation of remote mapping of cochlear implants.

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

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Validity of Automated Threshold Audiometry: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Validity of automated threshold audiometry: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Validity of diagnostic computer-based air and forehead bone conduction audiometry

scientific article published in April 2011

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

scientific article published on 11 November 2012

Vestibular involvement in adults with HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published on 19 October 2013

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

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Why parents refuse newborn hearing screening and default on follow-up rescreening--a South African perspective

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Why parents refuse newborn hearing screening in South Africa?

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m-Health Applications for Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review

scientific article published in 2022

mHealth Improves Access to Community-based Hearing Care

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

scientific article published in 2022