Assessing spoken word recognition in children who are deaf or hard of hearing: a translational approach.

ABSTRACT: Under natural conditions, listeners use both auditory and visual speech cues to extract meaning from speech signals containing many sources of variability. However, traditional clinical tests of spoken word recognition routinely employ isolated words or sentences produced by a single talker in an auditory-only presentation format. The more central cognitive processes used during multimodal integration, perceptual normalization, and lexical discrimination that may contribute to individual variation in spoken word recognition performance are not assessed in conventional tests of this kind. In this article, we review our past and current research activities aimed at developing a series of new assessment tools designed to evaluate spoken word recognition in children who are deaf or hard of hea

SUBMITTER: Kirk KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3577069 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature