Benefits of phoneme discrimination training in a randomized controlled trial of 50- to 74-year-olds with mild hearing loss

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ferguson, Melanie A ^a   Henshaw, Helen ^a   Clark, Daniel P A ^a   Moore, David R ^a,b,c  

^a National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Cognition; Learning; Speech perception; Training

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEACHING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903315059     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000020     Document Type: Article

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