Auditory performance Characteristics of the Computerized Revised Token Test (CRTT)

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 865-877

  Eberwein, Cynthia A ^a,b   Pratt, Sheila R ^b   McNeil, Malcolm R ^b   Fossett, Tepanta R D ^b   Szuminsky, Neil J ^a   Doyle, Patrick J ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory comprehension; Auditory processing; Auditory processing disorder; Language comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED REVISED TOKEN TEST; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; APHASIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; APHASIA; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548578955     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/061)     Document Type: Article

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