The speech intelligibility index and the pure-tone average as predictors of lexical ability in children fit with hearing aids

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 764-778

  Stiles, Derek J ^a   Bentler, Ruth A ^a   McGrego, Karla K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Pure tone average; Speech intelligibility index; Vocabulary; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STANDARD;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84862026040     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0264)     Document Type: Article

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