The Voice Test for Newborn Hearing Screening
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The whispered voice as a screening test for hearing impairment.
THERE are many occasions when a clinician may wish to 1 test the hearing of a patient to confirm that an impairment is present. There are several ways that this might be done but perhaps the easiest and most relevant is to use free-field voice testing. Voice testing of hearing was the standard method of assessing a person's ability to hear until pure-tone audiometers became widely available in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Medica Philippina
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2094-9278,0001-6071
DOI: 10.47895/amp.v46i3.2086