Ensuring accuracy of the pediatric hearing aid fitting.
Considerable effort has recently been dedicated towards early detection of hearing loss in infants. The goal is to subsequently fit hearing aids to hearing-impaired infants so that they can develop speech and language as early and as well as possible. The responsibility of the audiologist is to prov...
| Published in: | Trends in Amplification Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 11 - 28 |
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| Format: | equations & formulas tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2003
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