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Shafiro, Valeriy; Sheft, Stanley; Kuvadia, Sejal; Gygi, Brian – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: The study investigated the effect of a short computer-based environmental sound training regimen on the perception of environmental sounds and speech in experienced cochlear implant (CI) patients. Method: Fourteen CI patients with the average of 5 years of CI experience participated. The protocol consisted of 2 pretests, 1 week apart,…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Stimuli, Speech Impairments, Surgery
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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
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McCaffrey Morrison, Helen – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Locus equations (LEs) were derived from consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) syllables produced by four speakers with profound hearing loss. Group data indicated that LE functions obtained for the separate CVC productions initiated by /b/, /d/, and /g/ were less well-separated in acoustic space than those obtained from speakers with normal hearing. A…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Deafness, Acoustics, Articulation Impairments