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Lauren Petley; Chelsea Blankenship; Lisa L. Hunter; Hannah J. Stewart; Li Lin; David R. Moore – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Amplitude modulations (AMs) are important for speech intelligibility, and deficits in speech intelligibility are a leading source of impairment in childhood listening difficulties (LiD). The present study aimed to explore the relationships between AM perception and speech-in-noise (SiN) comprehension in children and to determine whether…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Children
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Hosseinabad, Hedieh Hashemi; Bai, Xiuqin – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Intelligibility measurement is influenced by the characteristics of a speaker, listener and contextual factors. This study addresses the clinical problem of measuring speech intelligibility in children with velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) in real-world conditions. Aims: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of…
Descriptors: Intelligibility, Measurement, Speech Communication, Speech Impairments
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Yang, Jing; Xu, Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the acoustic profile and to evaluate the intelligibility of vowel productions in prelingually deafened, Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Twenty-five children with CIs and 20 age-matched children with normal hearing (NH) were recorded producing a list of Mandarin…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Deafness, Vowels, Acoustics