This paper studies speech data of 45 children with hearing impairment and 79 children with normal hearing in terms of their speech intelligibility, vowel production, and tone production. Age played an important role in the intelligibility scores and vowel space size of the normally hearing group. In contrast, only the word comprehension ability had a significant effect on the intelligibility sc...

Childhood hearing impairment is a common chronic condition that may have a major impact on acquisition of speech, social and physical development. Numerous literature states that injury to the vestibular organs may result in accompanying balance and motor development disorders. But still postural control and motor assessments are not a routine procedure in hearing impaired children. Hence, we a...