Adaptation of the HINT (hearing in noise test) for adult Canadian Francophone populations

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 358-361

  Vaillancourt, Véronique ^a   Laroche, Chantal ^a   Mayer, Chantal ^a   Basque, Cynthia ^a   Nali, Madeleine ^a   Eriks Brophy, Alice ^a   Soli, Sigfrid D ^b   Giguère, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional hearing assessment; HINT; Speech audiometry; Speech intelligibility assessment; Speech perception in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEARING IN NOISE TEST; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 22744453816     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020500060875     Document Type: Article

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