Assessment of basal sound identification skills and communication abilities in profoundly deaf children fitted with hearing aids or a cochlear implant

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 455-461

  Van Den Borne, S ^a,b   Snik, A F M ^a,b   Hoekstra, C C ^a,b   Vermeulen, A M ^a,b   Van Den Broek, P ^a,b   Brokx, J P L ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for the Deaf   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Basal auditory functions; Children; Cochlear implant; Hearing aid; Skills; Verbal communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031662561     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.1998.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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