Journal article
Assessing spoken word recognition in children who are deaf or hard of hearing: A translational approach
Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, Vol.23(6), pp.464-475
06/2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/115719
PMCID: PMC3577069
PMID: 22668766
Abstract
Under natural conditions, listeners use both auditory and visual speech cues to extract meaning from speech signals containing many sources of variability. However, traditional clinical tests of spoken word recognition routinely employ isolated words or sentences produced by a single talker in an auditory-only presentation format. The more central cognitive processes used during multimodal integration, perceptual normalization and lexical discrimination that may contribute to individual variation in spoken word recognition performance are not assessed in conventional tests of this kind. In this paper, we review our past and current research activities aimed at developing a series of new assessment tools designed to evaluate spoken word recognition in children who are deaf or hard of hearing. These measures are theoretically motivated by a current model of spoken word recognition and also incorporate “real-world” stimulus variability in the form multiple talkers and presentation formats. The goal of this research is to enhance our ability to estimate real-world listening ability and to predict benefit from sensory aid use in children with varying degrees of hearing loss.
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- Title
- Assessing spoken word recognition in children who are deaf or hard of hearing: A translational approach
- Creators
- Karen Iler Kirk - The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IALindsay Prusick - The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IABrian French - Washington State University, Pullman, WAChad Gotch - Washington State University, Pullman, WALaurie S Eisenberg - House Research Institute, Los Angeles, CANancy Young - Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, Vol.23(6), pp.464-475
- Academic Unit
- UNKNOWN
- Grant note
- R01 DC008875 || DC / National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders : NIDCD
- Identifiers
- 99900547682901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article