Aided and unaided speech perception by older hearing impaired listeners

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Woods, David L ^a,b,c   Arbogast, Tanya ^a   Doss, Zoe ^a   Younus, Masood ^a   Herron, Timothy J ^a   Yund, E William ^a  

^a VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING AID; HEARING IN NOISE TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; QUICK SPEECH IN NOISE TEST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THERAPY EFFECT; VOWEL; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 84923879589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114922     Document Type: Article

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