Audiovisual Enhancement of Speech Perception in Noise by School-Age Children Who Are Hard of Hearing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to examine age- and hearing-related differences in school-age children's benefit from visual speech cues. The study addressed three questions: (1) Do age and hearing loss affect degree of audiovisual (AV) speech enhancement in school-age children? (2) Are there age- and hearing-related differences in the mechanisms underlying AV speech enhancement in school-age children? (3) What cognitive and linguistic variables predict individual differences in AV benefit among school-age children?

Design

Forty-eight children between 6 and 13 years of age (19 with mild to severe sensorineural hearing loss; 29 with normal hearing) and 14 adults with normal hearing completed measures of auditory and AV syllable detection and/or sentence recognition i

SUBMITTER: Lalonde K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7822589 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul/Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature