A test to determine the auditory speech perception ability of hearing‐impaired children

1978 ◽  
Vol 64 (S1) ◽  
pp. S50-S50
Author(s):  
K. O. Jones ◽  
R. L. Whitehead
Author(s):  
Abdollah Moossavi ◽  
Saeideh Mehrkian ◽  
Nasrin Gohari ◽  
Mohammad Ali Nazari ◽  
Enayatollah Bakhshi ◽  
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1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth O. Jones ◽  
Gerald A. Studebaker

The performance of 23 hearing-impaired children on a closed-response, auditory speech discrimination test and on an open-response, auditory speech discrimination test was compared to their performance on auditory tests of sensitivity, teacher-evaluated categories, and other related subject data. A comparison of the results of closed-response, auditory speech discrimination test and the open-response, auditory speech discrimination test indicates that the closed-response set test paradigm appears more productive for use with severely hearing-impaired subjects whose level of performance is low (but not 0%) on the open-response, auditory speech discrimination test. The closed-response test scores for this group are highly positively correlated to data dependent upon hearing function, whereas the open-response scores are not. Analyses of the closed-response set test results indicate that a closed-response set test paradigm can successfully demonstrate auditory speech discrimination error patterns on a subject group basis.


1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 3063-3063
Author(s):  
Carl C. Crandell ◽  
Gary W. Siebein ◽  
Martin A. Gold ◽  
Mary Jo Hasell ◽  
Philip Abbott ◽  
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QJM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 113 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A M Saad ◽  
M A Hegazi ◽  
M S Khodeir

Abstract Background Lip-reading is considered an important skill which varies considerably among normal hearing and hearing impaired (HI) children. It helps HI children to perceive speech, acquire spoken language and acquire phonological awareness. Speech perception is considered to be a multisensory process that involves attention to auditory signals as well as visual articulatory movements. Integration of auditory and visual signals occurs naturally and automatically in normal individuals across all ages. Many researches suggested that normal hearing children use audition as the primary sensory modality for speech perception, whereas HI children use lip-reading cues as the primary sensory modality for speech perception. Aim of the Work The aim of this study is to compare the lip-reading ability between normal and HI children. Participants and methods This is a comparative descriptive case control study. It was applied on 60 hearing impaired children (cases) and 60 normal hearing children (controls) of the same age and gender. The age range was (3-8 years). The Egyptian Arabic Lip-reading Test was applied to all children. Results There was statistically significant difference between the total mean scores of the EALRT between normal and HI children. Conclusion The results of the study proved that normal children are better lip-readers than HI children of the matched age range.


1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman P. Erber ◽  
Christine M. Alencewicz

This paper describes an audiologic test battery for hearing-impaired children which includes otoscopic examination, tympanometry, pure-tone audiometry, speech perception testing, and hearing aid evaluation. Several of the procedures and modifications to apparatus have been developed specifically for use with deaf children. Clinical data are presented from 160 hearing-impaired children (age range three-16 years). Eighteen percent of their ears were found to contain excessive cerumen and to require ear canal irrigation. The incidence of abnormal tympanograms was high for young children but decreased with increasing age. A simple auditory speech perception test designed for use with both severely and profoundly deaf children is described, which provides for evaluation of a child’s ability to recognize words, categorize them into stress patterns, or both. The children’s word recognition and word categorization scores were found to relate to their audiometric averages. The overall test battery is easy to administer and also is efficient, in that considerable audiologic information can be obtained quickly.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman P. Erber

This article reviews the limitations of defining profound hearing impairment solely by reference to pure-tone audiograms. Instead, profoundly hearing-impaired children may be described as those whose ability to distinguish spectral features in speech is extremely poor, and for whom the gross intensity variations in the waveform envelope are the principal acoustic cues. Examples of pattern cues that are available to profoundly hearing-impaired children are presented through an optical analog, and the usefulness of these cues is shown with regard to vowel and consonant identification, word stress-pattern perception, and distinction among sentences that differ in number of syllables, pattern, intensity, or rate. Perception of speech material through vision (lipreading) and also through combined auditory and visual modes are described, with a discussion of articulatory and language factors that influence intelligibility. Instructional strategies are briefly reviewed as they relate to educational improvement of speech-perception abilities of profoundly hearing-impaired children and to the development of special sensory aids.


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