Tim Beechey

Contact

• workNew Lister Building, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
• work0141 242 9677
• Tim.Beechey@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

My current research investigates the effects of hearing impairment on people's ability to communicate, especially in noisy situations. My work is focused on understanding how people may change their… read more

Recent Publications

• BEECHEY, T., 2022. Ecological Validity, External Validity, and Mundane Realism in Hearing Science Ear & Hearing. 43(5), 1395-1401
• BEECHEY, T., 2022. Is speech intelligibility what speech intelligibility tests test? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 152(3), 1573-1585
• BEECHEY, T., 2022. On perspective taking in conversation and in research: A comment on Bambara et al. (2021) Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 65(4), 1597-1599
• MILES, K., BEECHEY, T., BEST, V. and BUCHHOLZ, J. M., 2022. Measuring speech intelligibility and hearing-aid benefit using everyday conversational sentences in real-world environments Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16, 789565

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Current Research

My current research investigates the effects of hearing impairment on people's ability to communicate, especially in noisy situations. My work is focused on understanding how people may change their communication behaviour to compensate for changes in the acoustic environment, how such behavioural strategies may impact people's capacity to communicate in adverse conditions, and how the effects of such behavioural strategies affect our ability to measure communication performance in controlled experimental conditions.

• BEECHEY, T., 2022. Ecological Validity, External Validity, and Mundane Realism in Hearing Science Ear & Hearing. 43(5), 1395-1401
• BEECHEY, T., 2022. Is speech intelligibility what speech intelligibility tests test? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 152(3), 1573-1585
• BEECHEY, T., 2022. On perspective taking in conversation and in research: A comment on Bambara et al. (2021) Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 65(4), 1597-1599
• MILES, K., BEECHEY, T., BEST, V. and BUCHHOLZ, J. M., 2022. Measuring speech intelligibility and hearing-aid benefit using everyday conversational sentences in real-world environments Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16, 789565
• BEECHEY, T., BUCHHOLZ, J. M. and KEIDSER, G., 2020. Hearing Impairment Increases Communication Effort During Conversations in Noise Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 63(1), 305-320
• BEECHEY, T., BUCHHOLZ, J. M. and KEIDSER, G., 2020. Hearing Aid Amplification Reduces Communication Effort of People With Hearing Impairment and Their Conversation Partners Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 63(4), 1299-1311
• MILES, K., KEIDSER, G., FREESTON, K., BEECHEY, T., BEST, V. and BUCHHOLZ, J. M., 2020. Development of the Everyday Conversational Sentences in Noise Test The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147(3), 1562-1576
• BEECHEY, T., BUCHHOLZ, J. M. and KEIDSER, G., 2019. Eliciting Naturalistic Conversations: A Method for Assessing Communication Ability, Subjective Experience, and the Impacts of Noise and Hearing Impairment Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 62(2), 1-15
• NELSON, P., ANDERSON, E. and BEECHEY, T., 2019. Laboratory Simulations of Conversation Scenarios: Questionnaire Results from Patient and Partner In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 39. 050004
• WEISSER, A., BUCHHOLZ, J. M., OREINOS, C., BADAJOZ-DAVILA, J., GALLOWAY, J., BEECHEY, T. and KEIDSER, G., 2019. The Ambisonic Recordings of Typical Environments ARTE Database Acta Acustica United with Acustica. 105(4), 695-713
• BEECHEY, T., BUCHHOLZ, J. M. and KEIDSER, G., 2018. Measuring Communication Difficulty through Effortful Speech Production during Conversation Speech Communication. 100(1), 18-29
• CAMERON, S., CHONG-WHITE, N., MEALINGS, K., BEECHEY, T., DILLON, H. and YOUNG, T., 2018. The Parsing Syllable Envelopes Test for Assessment of Amplitude Modulation Discrimination Skills in Children: Development, Normative Data, and Test--Retest Reliability Studies Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 29(2), 151-163
• CAMERON, S., CHONG-WHITE, N., MEALINGS, K., BEECHEY, T., DILLON, H. and YOUNG, T., 2018. The Phoneme Identification Test for Assessment of Spectral and Temporal Discrimination Skills in Children: Development, Normative Data, and Test--Retest Reliability Studies Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 29(2), 135-150
• BEECHEY, T., BUCHHOLZ, J. M. and KEIDSER, G., 2016. Eliciting Natural Conversational Lombard Speech in Realistic Acoustic Environments In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140. 3214--3214
• BUCHHOLZ, J. M., WEISSER, A., BEECHEY, T., GALLOWAY, J., KEIDSER, G. and FREESTON, K., 2016. Estimating Realistic Speech Levels for Virtual Acoustic Environments In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140. 3427-3437
• MEJIA, J., DILLON, H., VAN HOESEL, R., BEACH, E., GLYDE, H., YEEND, I., BEECHEY, T., MCLELLAND, M., O'BRIEN, A., BUCHHOLZ, J. M., SHARMA, M., VALDERRAMA, J. and WILLIAMS, W., 2015. Loss of Speech Perception in Noise \textendash{} Causes and Compensation In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research. 5. 205-216
• BEECHEY, T., Ordinal Pattern Analysis: A Tutorial on Assessing the Fit of Hypotheses to Individual Repeated Measures Data Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. (In Press.)