Speech perception benefits from sound field FM amplification

American Journal of Audiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 114-124

  Mendel, Lisa Lucks ^a   Roberts, Richard A ^b   Walton, Julie H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurements; Sound field FM amplification; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842852922     PISSN: 10590889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1059-0889(2003/019)     Document Type: Article

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