Naslov
Evaluation of Croatian-speaking children's speech with cochlear implants and comparison with hearing-aid users

Autori
Mildner, Vesna ; Šindija, Branka ; Horga, Damir

Izvornik
Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders (1476-9670) 1 (2003), 1; 63-70

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
umjetna pužnica; djeca; glas; razumljivost; razvoj jezika
(cochlear implants; children; voice quality; intelligibility; language development)

Sažetak
Twenty-one prelingualy deaf children with cochlear implants, aged between 5 and 13 years and all monolingual Croatian speakers were studied. The aim was to evaluate the speech of implanted children, depending on the age at implantation, and the duration of pre- and postoperative rehabilitation. The speech samples were collected by having the children describe a series of cartoons depicting a birthday scene. Speech therapists and university students evaluated the recordings. The listeners had to reconstruct the story based on the heard renditions and to evaluate the speech for voice quality and overall intelligibility on a 1-5 scale. The samples were also analysed in terms of utterance complexity and the prevalence of different word types. Comparison with the matched group of non-implanted deaf children, all hearing-aid users, reveals differences between the two groups of children with respect to both the linguistic and phonetic parameters.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti, Filologija

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