A computerized adaptive testing system for speech discrimination measurement: The Speech Sound Pattern Discrimination Test

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2289-2298

  Bochner, Joseph ^a   Garrison, Wayne ^a   Palmer, Linda ^a   MacKenzie, Douglas ^a   Braveman, Amy ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030999175     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418209     Document Type: Article

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