Development of an adaptive low-pass filtered speech test for the identification of auditory processing disorders

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 777-782

  O'Beirne, Greg A ^a   McGaffin, Andrew J ^a   Rickard, Natalie A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Bionics Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Audiology; Auditory processing disorder; Hearing disorders; Speech acoustics; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LOW PASS FILTERED SPEECH TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY ADAPTIVE SPEECH TEST; UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY ADAPTIVE SPEECH TEST FILTERED WORD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861457432     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: 18728464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2012.02.039     Document Type: Article

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