Benefit from non-linear frequency compression hearing aids in a clinical setting: The effects of duration of experience and severity of high-frequency hearing loss

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 219-228

  Hopkins, Kathryn ^a   Khanom, Mumtaz ^b   Dickinson, Ann Marie ^a   Munro, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOLTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Frequency compression; Hearing aids

Indexed keywords

AGED; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896354610     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2013.873956     Document Type: Article

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