Effects of Background Noise and Reverberation on the Aided Speech Perception in Adults with a Severe or Severe-to-profound Hearing Impairment

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 63-73

  Flynn, Mark C ^a,c   Dowell, Richard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; BACKGROUND NOISE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; REVERBERATION; SEVERE TO PROFOUND HEARING IMPAIRMENT; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

EID: 1542410064     PISSN: 01571532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/audi.25.2.63.31119     Document Type: Article

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