Longitudinal infant speech perception in young cochlear implant users

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 129-142

  Uhler, Kristin ^a   Yoshinaga Itano, Christie ^b   Gabbard, Sandra Abbott ^a   Rothpletz, Ann M ^c   Jenkins, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Conditioned head turn; Hearing loss; Visual reinforcement infant speech discrimination

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955691559     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.22.3.2     Document Type: Article

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