Effects of nonlinear frequency compression on speech identification in children with hearing loss

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 353-365

  Hillock Dunn, Andrea ^a   Buss, Emily ^a   Duncan, Nicole ^a   Roush, Patricia A ^a   Leibold, Lori J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMAN; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; SOFTWARE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84899618317     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000007     Document Type: Article

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