Auditory Training with Frequent Communication Partners

Autor/inn/en	Tye-Murray, Nancy; Spehar, Brent; Sommers, Mitchell; Barcroft, Joe
Titel	Auditory Training with Frequent Communication Partners
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59 (2016) 4, S.871-875 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2016_JSLHR-H-15-0171
Schlagwörter	Auditory Training; Familiarity; Spouses; Speech Language Pathology; Hearing Impairments; Auditory Discrimination; Auditory Stimuli; Computer Assisted Testing; Outcomes of Treatment; Interpersonal Relationship; Interpersonal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belgien; Ehepartner; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Auditive Stimulation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interpersonale Kommunikation
Abstract	Purpose: Individuals with hearing loss engage in auditory training to improve their speech recognition. They typically practice listening to utterances spoken by unfamiliar talkers but never to utterances spoken by their most frequent communication partner (FCP)--speech they most likely desire to recognize--under the assumption that familiarity with the FCP's speech limits potential gains. This study determined whether auditory training with the speech of an individual's FCP, in this case their spouse, would lead to enhanced recognition of their spouse's speech. Method: Ten couples completed a 6-week computerized auditory training program in which the spouse recorded the stimuli and the participant (partner with hearing loss) completed auditory training that presented recordings of their spouse. Results: Training led participants to better discriminate their FCP's speech. Responses on the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement (Dillon, James, & Ginis, 1997) indicated subjectively that training reduced participants' communication difficulties. Performance on a word identification task did not change. Conclusions: Results suggest that auditory training might improve the ability of older participants with hearing loss to recognize the speech of their spouse and might improve communication interactions between couples. The results support a task-appropriate processing framework of learning, which assumes that human learning depends on the degree of similarity between training tasks and desired outcomes. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01