Performance of Children with Hearing Loss on an Audiovisual Version of a Nonword Repetition Task

Autor/inn/en	Al-Salim, Sarah; Moeller, Mary Pat; McGregor, Karla K.
Titel	Performance of Children with Hearing Loss on an Audiovisual Version of a Nonword Repetition Task
Quelle	In: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 51 (2020) 1, S.42-54 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-1461
Schlagwörter	Children; Hearing Impairments; Repetition; Performance; Language Skills; Short Term Memory; Executive Function; Severity (of Disability); Assistive Technology; Vocabulary; Accuracy; Audiovisual Communications + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Wiederholung; Achievement; Leistung; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Schweregrad; Wortschatz
Abstract	Purpose: The aims of this study were to (a) determine if a high-quality adaptation of an audiovisual nonword repetition task can be completed by children with wide-ranging hearing abilities and to (b) examine whether performance on that task is sensitive to child demographics, hearing status, language, working memory, and executive function abilities. Method: An audiovisual version of a nonword repetition task was adapted and administered to 100 school-aged children grouped by hearing status: 35 with normal hearing, 22 with mild bilateral hearing loss, 17 with unilateral hearing loss, and 26 cochlear implant users. Participants also completed measures of vocabulary, working memory, and executive function. A generalized linear mixed-effects model was used to analyze performance on the nonword repetition task. Results: All children were able to complete the nonword repetition task. Children with unilateral hearing loss and children with cochlear implants repeated nonwords with less accuracy than normal-hearing peers. After adjusting for the influence of vocabulary and working memory, main effects were found for syllable length and hearing status, but no interaction effect was observed. Conclusions: The audiovisual nonword repetition task captured individual differences in the performance of children with wide-ranging hearing abilities. The task could act as a useful tool to aid in identifying children with unilateral or mild bilateral hearing loss who have language impairments beyond those imposed by the hearing loss. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01