Speech recognition in quiet and noise in borderline cochlear implant candidates

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 872-882

  Alkaf, Farah Mohd ^a   Firszt, Jill B ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Hearing aid; Postlingual hearing loss; Speech perception; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT SELECTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 42649100688     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.10.6     Document Type: Article

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