Teaching Consonants to Profoundly Hearing-Impaired Speakers Using Palatometry

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel G. Fletcher ◽  
Paul A. Dagenais ◽  
Paula Critz-Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Contact Patterns ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Five profoundly hearing-impaired children were taught the consonants /t,d,k,g,s,z∫/ using palatometry. Changes in linguapalatal contact patterns and listener perceptions showed significant improvement in the place and manner of consonants produced by all subjects. Velar stops were as easily and accurately learned as alveolar stops. Distinctive sibilants were also found by the end of training. Sounds not previously present in a subject’s phonetic repetoire were learned more accurately than those present but inaccurate prior to therapy. Voicing errors persisted. Two of the subjects showed evidence of newly established, unsolicited coarticulated movements. The results indicated that visual articulatory modeling and feedback of linguapalatal contact patterns is an effective means of teaching consonants and improving speech intelligibility.

Consonant Lingual-Palatal Contacts Produced by Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1423-1435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Dagenais ◽  
Paula Critz-Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Groove Width ◽  
Contact Patterns ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Ten normal hearing (NH) and 18 profoundly hearing-impaired (HI) children were recorded using palatometry and audiotape while producing the consonants /t,d,k,g,s,z,∫/ in CV syllables (V=/i, α/). The lingual-palatal contacts produced by the NH subjects for the alveolar stops were undifferentiated across voicing and vowel environment differences. Lingual-palatal contact patterns for the velar stops differed for vowel environment but not for voicing. The /s/ and /z/ sibilants were distinguished by groove width but not anterior place. Groove locations for /s/ and /z/ were more anterior than groove locations for /∫/. The anterior grove location for the /∫/ was vowel dependent. The HI subjects produced idiosyncratic lingual-palatal contact patterns. As patterns for individuals became more unique and less variable across the syllable stimuli, listener identifications showed correspondingly incorrect, undifferentiated responses. The atypical contact patterns used by the HI subjects often required interpretation of possible tongue activities during attempts at the various consonants.

scholarly journals A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON ANALYSIS OF PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN TAMIL SPEAKING HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 769-773
Author(s):  
Dhinakaran N. ◽  
◽  
Karthikeyan B.M ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Implant Surgery ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Cochlear Implant Surgery ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Phonological Processes are simplification of sounds which occur among the children during the younger age and will gradually diminish giving an adult like speech form. The aim of the present study is to analyze the occurrence of phonological processes among hearing impaired children who underwent cochlear implant surgery during their younger age as an early intervention. The subjects included in the study were 10 children (5 male and 5 female) who were diagnosed with congenital total hearing impairment and underwent cochlear implant surgery and attending Auditory verbal therapy. The task given to the subjects in the present study is to repeat the words in Tamil Articulation Test followed by the Clinician. The words were recorded and further analyzed for the occurrence of phonological processes. The results show that a total of 26 phonological processes (both typical and atypical) occurred with a maximum occurrence of Depalatalization and minimally of Final Consonant Deletion. The results of the present study help in providing a better knowledge about the occurrence of phonological processes which helps the speech language pathologist in intervening hearing impaired children with cochlear implants and to improve their speech intelligibility.

Vocal/Verbal Response Times of Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children

1985 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 548-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel G. Fletcher ◽  
Stephen C. Smith ◽  
Akira Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Verbal Response ◽  
Hearing Level ◽  
Response Latencies ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

A series of experiments are reported that contrast vocal/verbal reaction-time measures from 16 normal-hearing and 25 hearing-impaired children 7 to 14 years old. Sixteen of the hearing-impaired children were enrolled in a residential school, 9 in a day school. Vocal reaction time of the children in response to visually presented stimuli was measured in four tasks: phonating "uh", saying the word "one", counting to digits, and naming digits. No significant differences were found between the response latencies of the two hearing-impaired groups on any task. Nor were differences found between the normal and hearing-impaired groups when the task was simply phonating "uh". Differences between these groups began to emerge when the word "one" was spoken. These differences increased systematically with the phonetic complexity of the task. Hearing level, latency in the counting responses, and magnitude of a ratio between phonating and digit counting latencies were identified as major predictors of speech intelligibility. The results suggest that central phonetic processing functions may be related to the quality of speech production by hearing-impaired talkers.

scholarly journals Speech Intelligibility in Persian Hearing Impaired Children with Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rezaei ◽  
Maryam Emadi ◽  
Peyman Zamani ◽  
Farhad Farahani ◽  
Gohar Lotfi
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Systematic Modification of Parental Input to Train Language Symbols

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Culatta ◽  
Donna Horn
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Meaningful Use ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Parental Input ◽  
Language Exposure ◽  
Therapy Sessions ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children ◽  
At Home

This study attempted to maximize environmental language learning for four hearing-impaired children. The children's mothers were systematically trained to present specific language symbols to their children at home. An increase in meaningful use of these words was observed during therapy sessions. In addition, as the mothers began to generalize the language exposure strategies, an increase was observed in the children's use of words not specifically identified by the clinician as targets.

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.

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