Oral Communication Skills of Children Who Are Hard of Hearing

Autor: Julia M. Davis, Mary A. Hardin-Jones, Jill L. Elfenbein
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 37:216-226
ISSN: 1558-9102
1092-4388
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3701.216
Popis: Forty children with mild to severe hearing losses were administered a battery of speech and language tasks. The children’s speech was characterized by misarticulation of affricates and fricatives, mild-moderate hoarseness, mild resonance problems, and good intelligibility. Their language samples included syntactic errors, primarily involving the use of bound morphemes and complex sentence structures. The children’s pragmatic errors consisted primarily of providing inadequate or ambiguous information to the listener. These results indicate a consistent pattern of oral communication behavior that reflects the reduction of acoustic input that they experience.
Databáze: OpenAIRE