The DSL method for pediatric hearing instrument fitting: historical perspective and current issues.
The Desired Sensation Level (DSL) Method was originally developed in the early 1980s to provide clinicians with a systematic, science-based approach to pediatric hearing instrument fitting that ensures audibility of amplified speech by accounting for factors that are uniquely associated with the pro...
| Publicado en: | Trends in Amplification Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 145 - 158 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2005
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