Establishment of age-specific normative data for the Canadian French version of the hearing in noise test for children

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 453-466

  Vaillancourt, Véronique ^a   Laroche, Chantal ^a   Giguère, Christian ^a   Soli, Sigfrid D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; NOISE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 43249115337     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000310792.55221.0c     Document Type: Article

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