Validation of a speech intelligibility measure for profoundly deaf children

This paper reviews a study to validate a speech intelligibility measure for profoundly deaf children.

The effects of special lighting on the lipreading performance of profoundly deaf children

This paper is a review of a study to determine optimum lighting conditions to facilitate lipreading.

Threshold adaptation, temporal integration and frequency discrimination-learning in hearing impaired children

This paper is a review of a study to evaluate the usefulness of a laboratory approach to auditory training with hearing impaired children.

The use of a single channel, two attenuator hearing aid by severely hearing impaired children

This paper examines the results of testing five severely hearing impaired children using a special binaural system with s single amplification channel and two attenuators, allowing presentation of the stimulus materials monaurally or at different relative levels to the two ears.

Developing materials for teaching early elementary fundamental skills to hearing-impaired children

This paper contains materials for teaching early elementary skills to hearing impaired children.

Survey of hearing-impaired adults and parents of hearing-impaired children and their knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act

This paper discusses the results of a survey about awareness of the American with Disabilities Act.

Hearing-aid volume control adjustment by deaf children

This paper examines hearing aid volume control adjustments by deaf children. Specifically the study looks at how accurately deaf children set the volume controls of their hearing aids, if deaf children are able to comprehend the effects of talker-microphone distance on stimulus intensity, and do deaf children use their hearing aids to monitor their own voices. Access to thesis is restricted. Contact Archives and Rare Books.

Teaching speech to hearing-impaired children using the Speech Skills Worksheet: Phonemes

This paper addresses teaching speech skills (accurate production of phonemes and use of phonemes in isolation, syllables, words, phrases and sentences) to hearing impaired students through the use of the Speech Skills Worksheet and an accompanying Teaching Guide.

An analysis of the achievement of deaf children on a standardized vocabulary test

This paper examines the vocabulary responses of hearing impaired children on standardized tests.

Factors relating to the intelligibility of the speech of deaf children

This paper reviews a study of the speech intelligibility of deaf children to listeners with normal hearing.

The relationship of language development to theory of mind understanding in young deaf children

This paper studies cognitive development in young deaf children, specifically Theory of Mind development and its link to language abilities.

Diagnosis of the difficulties of congenitally deaf children in arithmetic reasoning

This paper examines the difficulties of arithmetic reasoning of hearing impaired children and to determine the value of remedial teaching.

Reception of acoustic speech signals as a function of sensation levels by hearing-impaired children

This paper is a review of a study to determine the sensation level at which the best discrimination and recognition occurs for severely and profoundly deaf children and the effect of distortion (peak clipping) has on the child's ability to recognize speech.

Identification of factors predicting spoken language development in young children with a cochlear implant

This paper examines the factors that are significant predictors of spoken language acquisition in children with cochlear implants. Factors identified include age of cochlear implantation, age of diagnosis, age started hearing aid use, parent educational level, and family income.

The relation between parental attitudes and cochlear implant benefit in eight and nine year-old children

This paper examines the relation between the speech perception abilities of children with a cochlear implant and parental attitudes.