Personal amplification for school-age children with auditory processing disorders.
@article{Kuk2008PersonalAF, title={Personal amplification for school-age children with auditory processing disorders.}, author={Francis K. Kuk and Amy Jackson and Denise Keenan and Chi-chuen Lau}, journal={Journal of the American Academy of Audiology}, year={2008}, volume={19 6}, pages={ 465-80 } }
BACKGROUND
Children with auditory processing disorders (APD) are described to have a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) difficulty. Frequency-modulated (FM) systems have been reported to improve this situation. Yet the use of personal amplification that may be more portable has not been attempted.
PURPOSE
To determine whether personal amplification would result in improvement in speech-in-noise performances (attentiveness and speech recognition) and daily functioning in children with diagnosed APD…
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