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Original Article

Hearing threshold levels and speech recognition in noise in 7-year-olds

Niveles de umbrales auditivos y reconocimiento del lenguaje en ruido en niños de 7 años

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Pages 435-443 | Received 11 Jul 2004, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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