Infant Speech Perception
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“Universal Newborn Hearing Screening” law will result in many more infants identified with hearing loss. Thus, many more infants will receive interventions such as cochlear implants at a very young age. In order to evaluate the benefits of receiving cochlear implants during infancy, speech perception and language skills of infants who receive cochlear implants must be assessed. However, most current procedures used to test infant speech perception and language skills have only been used with normalhearing infants. This paper reviews procedures that have been used to assess sound detection (Behavioral Observation Audiometry (BOA) and Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)), speech discrimination (VRA, High Amplitude Sucking (HAS), Visual Habituation (VH) Procedure), word learning (VH and Preferential Looking Paradigm (PLP)), and sensitivity to regularities in the ambient language (Headturn Preference Procedure (HPP)). A research plan is outlined and described to adapt the PLP and VH procedures for use with infants who use cochlear implants.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001