Threshold Measurements by Self-Fitting Hearing Aids: Feasibility and Challenges

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 167-174

  Keidser, Gitte ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^a   Zhou, Dan ^a   Carter, Lyndal ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

amplification; automated audiometry; hearing aid; in situ audiometry; self fitting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84860808709     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713812438700     Document Type: Article

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