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Original Article

Predicting the Speech Recognition Performance of Elderly Individuals with Sensorineural Hearing Impairment A Procedure Based on the Speech Intelligibility Index

Pages 215-222 | Received 28 Sep 1995, Accepted 10 Nov 1995, Published online: 12 Oct 2009

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