Transitioning hearing aid users with severe and profound loss to a new gain/frequency response: Benefit, perception, and acceptance

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 168-180

  Convery, Elizabeth ^a,b   Keidser, Gitte ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory rehabilitation; Hearing aids and assistive listening devices; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955679334     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.22.3.5     Document Type: Article

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