Age-related changes on a children's test of sensory-level speech perception capacity

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 94-106

  Hnath Chisolm, Theresa E ^a   Laipply, Erin ^a,b   Boothroyd, Arthur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Health Tour Inc   (United States)

^c Dept of Commun Sci and Disorders ^*

Author keywords

Assessment; Children; Multimodality; Sensory level; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HEARING; HUMAN; PHONATION; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031940134     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4101.94     Document Type: Article

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