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Title
Intraword variability in children with cochlear implants: the long-term development up to five years of age and a comparison with children with normal hearing
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Abstract
Purpose: This study evaluates intraword or token-to-token variability in the spontaneous speech of Dutch-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) longitudinally up to 5 years of age in comparison with intraword variability in age-matched peers with normal hearing (NH). Method: Spontaneous speech samples of 9 children with CI were collected longitudinally up to age 5. The data of the NH control group consisted of cross-sectional recordings. Children's word productions were categorized into 4 response types of the variability score (consistent correct, consistent incorrect, variable with hits, variable with no hits), and the proportion of whole-word variation (PWV) was calculated. Results: PWV was high in both groups of children but decreased with age. All response types of the variability score appeared in both groups. Children with CI were significantly more variable than their peers with NH up to age 4, but this difference has disappeared by age 5. Longer words had a higher PWV and were more often consistent incorrect and variable. Conclusions: Intraword variability was characteristic of children with CI's spontaneous speech productions as it was in children with NH, and a similar factor (word length) affected variability in production. Group comparisons showed higher rates of intraword variability in children with CI, but they seemed to catch up with their peers with NH by age 5.
Language
English
Source (journal)
American journal of speech-language pathology / American Speech, Language, Hearing Association. - Rockville, Md, 1991, currens
Publication
Rockville, Md : American Speech-Language-Hearing Association , 2018
ISSN
1058-0360 [print]
1558-9110 [online]
DOI
10.1044/2017_AJSLP-16-0130
Volume/pages
27 :2 (2018) , p. 706-720
ISI
000434155300014
Pubmed ID
29522096
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UAntwerpen
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Project info
Speech accuracy in young children: hearing and hearing impaired toddlers with a cochlear implant.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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