Relationship between laboratory measures of directional advantage and everyday success with directional microphone hearing aids

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 353-364

  Cord, Mary T ^a   Surr, Rauna K ^a   Walden, Brian E ^a   Dyrlund, Ole ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GN ReSound Group   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Directional advantage; Directional microphones; Hearing aids

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 12844252691     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.15.5.3     Document Type: Article

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