Connected Speech Intelligibility of Children with Cochlear Implants and Children with Normal Hearing

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 440-451

  Chin, Steven B ^a   Tsai, Patrick L ^a   Gao, Sujuan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Cochlear implant assessment; Normal language development; Spoken language assessment

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INNER EAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346218025     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2003/090)     Document Type: Article

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