Acceptable noise level as a measure of directional hearing aid benefit

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 228-236

  Freyaldenhoven, Melinda C ^a   Nabelek, Anna K ^a   Burchfield, Samuel B ^a   Thelin, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptable noise level; Background noise level; Directional benefit; Directional microphone; Front to back ratio; Speech reception threshold

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGIST; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 26944484466     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.16.4.4     Document Type: Article

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