Contemporary Approaches to Audiological Assessment in Young Children

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 52-70

  Besing, Joan ^a   Koehnke, Janet ^a   Abouchacra, Kim ^b   Letowski, Tomasz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing; Childhood hearing loss; Localization; Signal detection; Speech intelligibility; Virtual audiometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032398517     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-199805000-00008     Document Type: Article

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