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Vowel Production in Children with Cochlear Implants: Implications for Evaluating Disordered Speech
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Bharadwaj, Sneha V.; Assmann, Peter F. – Volta Review, 2013
The objective of this study was to investigate the perceptual relevance of acoustic differences in vowels produced by 6 children between the ages of 9-13 years old with unilateral cochlear implants. Formant frequencies were estimated for 12 repetitions of vowels /hid/, /hed/, /haed/, /hud/, /hUd/, and /hAd/ produced by the children. The estimated…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Children
Contrastive Stress in the Speech of Profoundly Deaf Children: A Preliminary Investigation.
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O'Halpin, Rosemary – Volta Review, 1997
This study compared how one typical 8-year old and two 8-year olds with profound deafness conveyed contrastive stress in their speech in simple declarative sentences. For the students with deafness, intensity measurements showed little variation across sentences and no intensity peaks corresponding to the syllables that should be contrastive.…
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Intonation, Speech Impairments
Consonant Cluster Production by Pediatric Users of Cochlear Implants.
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Chin, Steven B.; Finnegan, Kevin R. – Volta Review, 2000
Production of 19 word-initial two-segment consonant clusters was examined in 12 children (ages 6-16) with cochlear implants, including 6 using oral communication and 6 using total communication. Results showed that 48% of the clusters were correctly produced (75% correct for oral communication users and 21% correct for total communication users).…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Articulation Impairments, Cochlear Implants, Communication Skills