Methodological aspects of assessing speech intelligibility among children with impaired hearing

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 490-494

  Huttunen, Kerttu ^a   Sorri, Martti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hearing disorder; Hearing impairment; Measurement; Reliability; Speech; Speech production; Validity; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 2942710026     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480310000557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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