Speech sound production in 2-year-olds who are hard of hearing.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of the study was to (a) compare the speech sound production abilities of 2-year-old children who are hard of hearing (HH) to children with normal hearing (NH), (b) identify sources of risk for individual children who are HH, and (c) determine whether speech sound production skills at age 2 were predictive of speech sound production skills at age 3.

Method

Seventy children with bilateral, mild-to-severe hearing loss who use hearing aids and 37 age- and socioeconomic status-matched children with NH participated. Children's speech sound production abilities were assessed at 2 and 3 years of age.

Results

At age 2, the HH group demonstrated vowel production abilities on par with their NH peers but weaker consonant production abilities. Within the HH gro

SUBMITTER: Ambrose SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4035418 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature