A Comparison of Vowel Productions in Prelingually Deaf Children Using Cochlear Implants, Severe Hearing-Impaired Children Using Conventional Hearing Aids and Normal-Hearing Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Baudonck ◽  
K. Van Lierde ◽  
I. Dhooge ◽  
P. Corthals
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children ◽  
Prelingually Deaf

scholarly journals Cochlear implant: Speech and language development in deaf and hard of hearing children following implantation

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Ostojic ◽  
Sanja Djokovic ◽  
Nadezda Dimic ◽  
Branka Mikic
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Abstract Words ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Bacground/Aim. Almost 200 cochlear implantations were done in the four centers (two in Belgrade, per one in Novi Sad and Nis) in Serbia from 2002 to 2009. Less than 10% of implantees were postlingually deaf adults. The vast majority, i.e. 90% were pre- and perilingually profoundly deaf children. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of improved auditory perception due to cochlear implantation on comprehension of abstract words in children as compared with hearing impaired children with conventional hearing aids and normal hearing children. Methods. Thirty children were enrolled in this study: 20 hearing impaired and 10 normal hearing. The vocabulary test was used. Results. The overall results for the whole test (100 words) showed a significant difference in favor of the normal hearing as compared with hearing impaired children. The normal hearing children successfully described or defined 77.93% of a total of 100 words. Success rate for the cochlear implanted children was 26.87% and for the hearing impaired children with conventional hearing aids 20.32%. Conclusion. Testing for abstract words showed a statistically significant difference between the cochlear implanted and the hearing impaired children with hearing aids (Mann- Whitney U-test, p = 0.019) implying considerable advantage of cochlear implants over hearing aids regarding successful speech development in prelingually deaf children.

Children's Attitudes toward Peers Wearing Hearing Aids

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan E. Dengerink ◽  
Jane Boyd Porter
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Semantic Differential Scale ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

hundred fifth- and sixth-grade students were asked to rate slides of male children of the same age wearing various hearing aids, glasses, or no aid. Rating was accomplished using a semantic differential scale. The children gave poorer ratings to peers wearing hearing aids. Results suggest that normal-hearing children may need to be "educated" prior to hearing-impaired children entering their classroom.

Suprasegmentele Spraakeienskappe van Prelinguaal Gehoorgestremde Kinders met Kogleêre Inplantings, Gehoorgestremde Kinders sonder Inplantings en Normaalhorende Kinders

1999 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Adri Ligthelm ◽  
Emily Groenewald
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Speech Characteristics ◽  
Suprasegmental Features ◽  
Acoustic Analyses ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

A review of the relevant literature indicates a lack of knowledge regarding suprasegmental speech characteristics in prelingual hearing impaired children with cochlear implants. This study is aimed at examining certain suprasegmental features in the speech of prelingual hearing impaired children with cochlear implants by perceptual ratings and acoustic analyses, comparing these results to that of prelingual hearing impaired children without implants, and normal hearing children of the same age. Twelve Afrikaans speaking children between the ages of six and ten years were included in three groups. An integrated view of the perceptual and acoustic results shows that the cochlear implanted children's suprasegmental speech characteristics bear closer resemblance to those of the normal hearing group than those of the hearing impaired group.

Equivalent Noise Dose Obtained Through Hearing Aids in the Classrooms of Hearing-Impaired Children

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Ronald A. Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Very High ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

A commercial noise dose meter was used to estimate the equivalent noise dose received through high-gain hearing aids worn in a school for deaf children. There were no significant differences among nominal SSPL settings and all SSPL settings produced very high equivalent noise doses, although these are within the parameters of previous projections.

Intelligibility of Modified Speech for Young Listeners With Normal and Impaired Hearing

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 1027-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalie M. Uchanski ◽  
Ann E. Geers ◽  
Athanassios Protopapas
Keyword(s):  
Speech Processing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Processing Conditions ◽  
Impaired Hearing ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Listening In Noise ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Exposure to modified speech has been shown to benefit children with languagelearning impairments with respect to their language skills (M. M. Merzenich et al., 1998; P. Tallal et al., 1996). In the study by Tallal and colleagues, the speech modification consisted of both slowing down and amplifying fast, transitional elements of speech. In this study, we examined whether the benefits of modified speech could be extended to provide intelligibility improvements for children with severe-to-profound hearing impairment who wear sensory aids. In addition, the separate effects on intelligibility of slowing down and amplifying speech were evaluated. Two groups of listeners were employed: 8 severe-to-profoundly hearingimpaired children and 5 children with normal hearing. Four speech-processing conditions were tested: (1) natural, unprocessed speech; (2) envelope-amplified speech; (3) slowed speech; and (4) both slowed and envelope-amplified speech. For each condition, three types of speech materials were used: words in sentences, isolated words, and syllable contrasts. To degrade the performance of the normal-hearing children, all testing was completed with a noise background. Results from the hearing-impaired children showed that all varieties of modified speech yielded either equivalent or poorer intelligibility than unprocessed speech. For words in sentences and isolated words, the slowing-down of speech had no effect on intelligibility scores whereas envelope amplification, both alone and combined with slowing-down, yielded significantly lower scores. Intelligibility results from normal-hearing children listening in noise were somewhat similar to those from hearing-impaired children. For isolated words, the slowing-down of speech had no effect on intelligibility whereas envelope amplification degraded intelligibility. For both subject groups, speech processing had no statistically significant effect on syllable discrimination. In summary, without extensive exposure to the speech processing conditions, children with impaired hearing and children with normal hearing listening in noise received no intelligibility advantage from either slowed speech or envelope-amplified speech.

scholarly journals A comparison of maternal and child language in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired children with cochlear implants

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Vanormelingen ◽  
Sven De Maeyer ◽  
Steven Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Hearing Status ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

The present study examines the amount of input and output in congenitally hearing-impaired children with a cochlear implant (CI) and normally-hearing children (NH) and their normally-hearing mothers. The aim of the study was threefold: (a) to investigate the input provided by the two groups of mothers, (b) to investigate the output of the two groups of children, and (c) to investigate the influence of the mothers’ input on child output and expressive vocabulary size. Mothers are less influenced by their children’s hearing status than the children are: CI children are more talkative and slower speakers. Mothers influenced their children on most parameters, but strikingly, it was not maternal talkativeness as such, but the number of maternal turns that is the best predictor of a child’s expressive vocabulary size.

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