Combined effects of classroom reverberation and noise on speech perception by students with typical and impaired hearing

38th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2009, INTER-NOISE 2009

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1886-1893

  Iglehart, Frank ^a  

^a Clarke School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PROCESSING; CLASSROOM ACOUSTICS; COMBINED EFFECT; HEARING LOSS; LISTENING-IN; NEW RESULTS; REVERBERATION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEST MATERIALS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; EXHIBITIONS; RESEARCH; REVERBERATION; STUDENTS;

AUDITION;

EID: 84870043142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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