title: Children's recognition of their own recorded voice: influence of age and phonological impairment.
abstract: Children with phonological impairment (PI) often have difficulties perceiving insufficiencies in their own speech. The use of recordings has been suggested as a way of directing the child's attention toward his/her own speech, despite a lack of evidence that children actually recognize their recorded voice as their own. We present two studies of children's self-voice identification, one exploring developmental aspects, and one exploring potential effects of having a PI. The results indicate that children from 4 to 8 years recognize their recorded voice well (around 80% accuracy), regardless of whether they have a PI or not. A subtle change in this ability from 4 to 8 years is observed that could be linked to a development in short-term memory. Clinically, one can indeed expect an advantage of using recordings in therapy; this could constitute an intermediate step toward the more challenging task of online self-monitoring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden. sostr@csc.kth.se
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strömbergsson
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D010700:Phonetics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013637:Tape Recording; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology*