Spontaneous Speech Intelligibility: Early Cochlear Implanted Children versus Their Normally Hearing Peers at Seven Years of Age

Autor/inn/en	Boonen, Nathalie; Kloots, Hanne; Nurzia, Pietro; Gillis, Steven
Titel	Spontaneous Speech Intelligibility: Early Cochlear Implanted Children versus Their Normally Hearing Peers at Seven Years of Age
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 50 (2023) 1, S.78-103 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Boonen, Nathalie) ORCID (Gillis, Steven)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000921000714
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Assistive Technology; Speech Communication; Intelligibility; Hearing Impairments; Control Groups; Age Differences; Congenital Impairments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Speaking intelligibly is an important achievement in children's language development. How far do congenitally severe-to-profound hearing-impaired children who received a cochlear implant (CI) in the first two years of their life advance on the path to intelligibility in comparison to children with typical hearing (NH)? Spontaneous speech samples of children with CI and children with NH were orthographically transcribed by naïve transcribers. The entropy of the transcriptions was computed to analyze their degree of uniformity. The same samples were also rated on a continuous rating scale by another group of adult listeners. The transcriptions of the NH children's speech were more uniform, i.e., had significantly lower entropy, than those of the CI children, suggesting that the latter group displayed lower intelligibility. This was confirmed by the ratings on the continuous scale. Despite the relatively restricted age ranges, older children reached better intelligibility scores in both groups. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01