The transmission of phoneme-level information by multichannel tactile speech perception aids

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 392-406

  Weisenberger, Janet M ^a   Percy, Mary E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIP READING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOWEL;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOUCH;

EID: 0029129225     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199508000-00006     Document Type: Article

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