How close should a student with unilateral hearing loss stay to a teacher in a noisy classroom?

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 426-432

  Noh, Heil ^a   Park, Yong Gyu ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Classroom; Noise; Speech discrimination score; Unilateral hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PRESSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT; TIME; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRESSURE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84861149941     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2012.654855     Document Type: Article

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