UNLABELLED Profound hearing loss is a disability that affects personality and when it involves teenagers before language acquisition, these bio-psychosocial conflicts can be exacerbated, requiring careful evaluation and choice of them for cochlear implant. AIM To evaluate speech perception by adolescents with profound hearing loss, users of cochlear implants. STUDY DESIGN Prospective. MAT...

The aim of this study was to investigate the amount of binaural squelch effect (BSE) and head shadow effect (HSE) in children who use unilateral cochlear implants (CI) and contralateral hearing aids (HA). The study group consisted of 19 CI recipient children who consistently wore a contralateral HA. Speech sounds were used to evaluate speech perception performance in noise. Testing was performe...

human brain has been constructed to be different between male and female from structural and functional points of view. this research aims at the study of the difference between two genders in perception of non- affective (linguistic) prosody of speech. the present study is cross – sectional, whose subjects include 50 iranians in two gender categories of male and female. the responses of each g...

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—This paper addresses the problem of older adults’ understanding of speech. By analyzing speech rates used by various radio stations and by confronting them with audience ratings we found that there is some correlation between speech rate used by radio stations and audience preferences in different age groups. We present various studies analyzing the problem of speech perception among older ad...

The revised version of the Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) regards full-time equivalent (FTE), which involves amount L2 use during length residence (LOR) in an setting, as main factor speech acquisition. Previous studiesshowed that LOR has a significant effect on and L1 production perception but does not explain differences between populations (i.e., L1-Spanish L2-English vs. L1-English L2-Spanis...

INTRODUCTION Individuals with the same ability of speech recognition in quiet can have extremely different results in noisy environments. OBJECTIVE To standardize speech perception in adults with normal hearing in the free field using the Brazilian Hearing in Noise Test. METHODS Contemporary, cross-sectional cohort study. 79 adults with normal hearing and without cognitive impairment partic...

Introduction Usher syndrome (US) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hearing loss and progressive visual impairment. Some deaf Usher syndrome patients learn to communicate using sign language. During adolescence, as they start losing vision, they are usually referred to cochlear implantation as a salvage for their new condition. Is a late implantation beneficial to these childre...

This paper examines, analyzes, and synthesizes literature on VOT production and perception in the context of Motor Theory of speech perception. Specifically, positive and negative evidences from speech production and perception, language acquisition, and evidence of dissociation from speech disorders of VOT are reviewed in the light of the Necessity Condition versus a weaker version of motor th...