Predictability of Speech-In-Noise Performance from Real Ear Measures of Directional Hearing Aids

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-158

  Dhar, Sumitrajit ^a   Humes, Larry E ^a   Calandruccio, Lauren ^a   Barlow, Nancy N ^a   Hipskind, Nicholas ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842455113     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AUD.0000121236.56217.8F     Document Type: Article

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