Factors underlying the speech-recognition performance of elderly hearing-aid wearers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 1112-1132

  Humes, Larry E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING AIDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUDITORY FUNCTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036711801     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1499132     Document Type: Article

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