Affective Properties of Mothers' Speech to Infants With Hearing Impairment and Cochlear Implants.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The affective properties of infant-directed speech influence the attention of infants with normal hearing to speech sounds. This study explored the affective quality of maternal speech to infants with hearing impairment (HI) during the 1st year after cochlear implantation as compared to speech to infants with normal hearing.

Method

Mothers of infants with HI and mothers of infants with normal hearing matched by age (NH-AM) or hearing experience (NH-EM) were recorded playing with their infants during 3 sessions over a 12-month period. Speech samples of 25 s were low-pass filtered, leaving intonation but not speech information intact. Sixty adults rated the stimuli along 5 scales: positive/negative affect and intention to express affection, to encourage attention, to c

SUBMITTER: Kondaurova MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4610283 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature