Aided and unaided speech perception by older hearing impaired listeners.

The most common complaint of older hearing impaired (OHI) listeners is difficulty understanding speech in the presence of noise. However, tests of consonant-identification and sentence reception threshold (SeRT) provide different perspectives on the magnitude of impairment. Here we quantified speech...

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Main Authors: David L Woods, Tanya Arbogast, Zoe Doss, Masood Younus, Timothy J Herron, E William Yund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4346396?pdf=render