title: Assessing speech perception in children with cochlear implants using a modified hybrid visual habituation procedure.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objectives of this research were to determine whether an adapted version of a Hybrid Visual Habituation procedure could be used to assess speech perception of phonetic and prosodic features of speech (vowel height, lexical stress, and intonation) in individual pre-school-age children who use cochlear implants.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nine children ranging in age from 3;4 to 5;5 participated in this study. Children were prelingually deaf and used cochlear implants and had no other known disabilities. Children received two speech feature tests using an adaptation of a Hybrid Visual Habituation procedure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seven of the nine children demonstrated perception of at least one speech feature using this procedure using results from a Bayesian linear regression analysis. At least one child demonstrated perception of each speech feature using this assessment procedure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An adapted version of the Hybrid Visual Habituation Procedure with an appropriate statistical analysis provides a way to assess phonetic and prosodicaspects of speech in pre-school-age children who use cochlear implants.
authors: 1Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; and 2Department of Statistics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
authors: Cynthia
authors: C
authors: Core
authors: Janean W
authors: JW
authors: Brown
authors: Michael D
authors: MD
authors: Larsen
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Mahshie
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D013067:Speech Perception