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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