Speech recognition abilities in noise for children with severe-to-profound unilateral hearing impairment

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 771-779

  Ruscetta, Melissa N ^a,c   Arjmand, Ellis M ^b   Pratt, Sheila R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural listening; Speech recognition abilities; Unilateral hearing impairment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY MASKING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 18844364682     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2005.01.010     Document Type: Article

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