Hearing impairment and audiovisual speech integration ability: a case study report

Hearing impairment and audiovisual speech integration ability: a case study report

Research in audiovisual speech perception has demonstrated that sensory factors such as auditory and visual acuity are associated with a listener's ability to extract and combine auditory and visual speech cues. This case study report examined audiovisual integration using a newly developed measure of capacity in a sample of hearing-impaired listeners. Capacity assessments are unique because th...

Audiovisual Integration in Speech Processing

Progressive neural hearing impairment: case report.

This report describes a patient whose ability to understand speech had so deteriorated over 20 years time that she was being considered for a cochlear implant, despite the fact that pure-tone sensitivity loss had not deteriorated proportionately. An unusual combination of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and auditory evoked potential (AEP) results are described. Click-evoked and distortion product ...

Audiovisual asynchrony detection and speech intelligibility in noise with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing impairment.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to explore the sensitivity to intermodal asynchrony in audiovisual speech with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss. Based on previous studies, two opposing expectations were an increase in sensitivity, as hearing-impaired listeners heavily rely on lipreading in daily life, and a reduction in sensitivity, as hearing-impaired listeners tend to be...

Audiovisual speech integration and lipreading in autism.

BACKGROUND During speech perception, the ability to integrate auditory and visual information causes speech to sound louder and be more intelligible, and leads to quicker processing. This integration is important in early language development, and also continues to affect speech comprehension throughout the lifespan. Previous research shows that individuals with autism have difficulty integrati...