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

Autor/inn/en	Kondaurova, Maria V.; Bergeson, Tonya R.; Xu, Huiping; Kitamura, Christine
Titel	Affective Properties of Mothers' Speech to Infants with Hearing Impairment and Cochlear Implants
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58 (2015) 3, S.590-600 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2015_JSLHR-S-14-0095
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Infants; Hearing Impairments; Assistive Technology; Parent Child Relationship; Speech; Affective Behavior; Attention; Comparative Analysis; Child Development; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Speaking; Sprechen; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Aufmerksamkeit; Kindesentwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
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 comfort/soothe, and to direct behavior. Results: Low-pass filtered speech to HI and NH-EM groups was rated as more positive, affective, and comforting compared with the such speech to the NH-AM group. Speech to infants with HI and with NH-AM was rated as more directive than speech to the NH-EM group. Mothers decreased affective qualities in speech to all infants but increased directive qualities in speech to infants with NH-EM over time. Conclusions: Mothers fine-tune communicative intent in speech to their infant's developmental stage. They adjust affective qualities to infants' hearing experience rather than to chronological age but adjust directive qualities of speech to the chronological age of their infants. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01