Spatial release from masking in normal-hearing children and children who use hearing aids

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 368-375

  Ching, Teresa Y C ^a   Van Wanrooy, Emma ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^a   Carter, Lyndal ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; HEARING LOSS; NORMAL HEARING; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; TARGET SPEECH;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79551675096     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3523295     Document Type: Article

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