Speech perception in older hearing impaired listeners: benefits of perceptual training.

Hearing aids (HAs) only partially restore the ability of older hearing impaired (OHI) listeners to understand speech in noise, due in large part to persistent deficits in consonant identification. Here, we investigated whether adaptive perceptual training would improve consonant-identification in no...

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Main Authors: David L Woods, Zoe Doss, Timothy J Herron, Tanya Arbogast, Masood Younus, Marc Ettlinger, 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/PMC4346400?pdf=render