Parental comparison of the prosodic and paralinguistic ability of children with cochlear implants and their normal hearing siblings.
The everyday communication of children is commonly observed by their parents. This paper examines the responses of parents (n=18) who had both a Cochlear Implant (CI) and a Normal Hearing (NH) child. Through an online questionnaire, parents rated the ability of their children on a gamut of speech communication competencies encountered in everyday settings. Comparative parental ratings of the CI children were significantly poorer than those of their NH siblings in speaker recognition, happy and sad emotion, and question versus statement identification. Parents also reported that they changed the vocal effort and the enunciation of their speech when they addressed their CI child and that their CI child consistently responded when their name was called in normal, but not in noisy backgrounds. Demographic factors were not found to be linked to the parental impressions.
a Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics , University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen S , Denmark .
David J
DJ
Morris
a Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics , University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen S , Denmark .
Lærke
L
Christiansen
a Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics , University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen S , Denmark .
Cathrine
C
Uglebjerg
b Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology, Clinical Sciences in Lund , Lund University , Lund , Sweden , and.
K Jonas
KJ
Brännström
c Department of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences , University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway.
Eva-Signe
ES
Falkenberg
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D035781:Siblings; D013060:Speech; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Child speech; cochlear implant; paralinguistics; prosody