Evaluation of nonlinear frequency compression: Clinical outcomes

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 632-644

  Glista, Danielle ^a   Scollie, Susan ^a   Bagatto, Marlene ^a   Seewald, Richard ^a   Parsa, Vijay ^a   Johnson, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Clinical trial; Digital signal processing; Frequency compression; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Speech detection threshold; Speech perception; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350462924     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020902971349     Document Type: Article

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