Electroacoustic evaluation of frequency-modulated receivers interfaced with personal hearing aids

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 315-326

  Schafer, Erin C ^a   Thibodeau, Linda M ^b   Whalen, Holly S ^b   Overson, Gary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroacoustic; FM system; Hearing aid

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTHESIS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; DEAFNESS; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35648960735     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2007/034)     Document Type: Article

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