The influence of voice-onset time (VOT) and vowel-onset characteristics on the perception of the voicing contrast for initial plosive consonants was examined for hearing-impaired children, and normal-hearing children and adults. Listeners identified spoken 'DAD'--'TAD' stimuli controlled for VOT and vowel onset characteristics. Only six of 16 hearing-impaired children appropriately identified t...

One of the most devastating effects of congenital hearing loss is that normal development of speech is often disrupted. As a consequence, most hearing-impaired children must be taught the speech skills that normal-hearing children readily acquire during the first few years of life. Although some hearing-impaired children develop intelligible speech, many do not. For many years, it was believed ...

Objectives: Hearing impairment in children is considered as an important public health problem. Auditory function in these children is poor and depends on their hearing aids efficacy and also their ears’ status. Hearing aids are very expensive and ear disease deteriorates its performance. Therefore detecting the ear disease and offering proper treatment is necessary. The aim of this study is to...

Abstract Background Prosody is an important acoustic and linguistic component of speech that greatly contributes to intelligibility. Speech hearing-impaired children shows various deviations from their normal-hearing counterparts due complex physiological mechanisms. Methods Acoustic analysis the prosodic production hearing-impaired, cochlear-implanted, Egyptian children, comparing them a norma...

Children with hearing impairment show difficulties in sentences derived by Wh-movement, such as relative clauses and Wh-questions. This study examines the nature of this deficit in 48 hearing impaired children aged 9-12 years and 38 hearing controls. The task involved reading aloud and paraphrasing of object relatives that include a noun-verb heterophonic homograph. The correct pronunciation of...

background and aim: autobiography is a kind of narrative writing about a person written by that same person. indeed, it is a type of writing about self that is full of subjectivity and experience. the present study investigated the effect of autobiography method on the comprehension skill of hearing-impaired students. methods: international standardized reading literacy questions (2001) was emp...

The relationship between counting knowledge and computational skills (i.e., skill at counting to solve addition problems) was assessed for groups of first-grade normal and mathematically disabled (MD) children. Twenty-four normal and 13 MD children were administered a series of counting tasks and solved 40 computer-administered addition problems. For the addition task, problem-solving strategie...

objectives: hearing impairment in children is considered as an important public health problem. auditory function in these children is poor and depends on their hearing aids efficacy and also their ears’ status. hearing aids are very expensive and ear disease deteriorates its performance. therefore detecting the ear disease and offering proper treatment is necessary. the aim of this study is to...