Fitting hearing aids to individual loudness-perception measures

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 124-132

  Ricketts, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PROSTHESIS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS FITTING; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029983447     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199604000-00006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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