Nasalance in the Speech of Children with Normal Hearing and Children with Hearing Loss

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-248

  Fletcher, Samuel G ^a   Mahfuzh, Fuad ^a   Hendarmin, Hendarto ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Nasal resonance control; Nasalance; Speaking time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033430502     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0803.241     Document Type: Article

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