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Promising but preliminary

Bilingualism and Aging: Their Impact on Speech Perception in Noise Using the AzBio Sentence Test.

BACKGROUND: With age-related hearing loss on the rise and a large bilingual (BI) population in the United States, there is an increasing need for effective assessment tools for Spanish-speaking and BI older adults. Young monolinguals and BIs showed no difference in performance on the English version.

BACKGROUND: With age-related hearing loss on the rise and a large bilingual (BI) population in the United States, there is an increasing need for effective assessment tools for Spanish-speaking and BI older adults. Young monolinguals and BIs showed no difference in performance on the English version.

What the study was

Study design
Not specified
Category
Public Health
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Why it surfaced

Relevant Aging, longevity, and population health study (promising preliminary signal) meets standard-priority threshold.

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