Age affects responses on the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (SSQ) by adults with minimal audiometric loss

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-91

  Banh, Jessica ^a   Singh, Gurjit ^a,b   Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Audition; Cognition; Hearing loss; Listening; Self reported hearing; SSQ

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SPEECH, SPATIAL, AND QUALITIES OF HEARING SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857463193     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.23.2.2     Document Type: Article

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