The effect of nonlinear frequency compression and linear frequency transposition on speech perception in school-aged children

The primary objective of this study is to determine whether nonlinear frequency compression and linear transposition algorithms provide speech perception benefit in school-aged children.

A performance test for school age children wtih a language handicap

This paper discusses language and intelligence tests for hearing impaired children.

Noise exposure in high school aged youths and distortion product otoacoustic emissions

This paper discusses the effect of noise exposure on high school aged boys' hearing levels and how to measure the effects.

Noise exposure in school-age children

This paper discusses a study to determine the average level of noise exposure for school children on a typical school day.

Comparison of three speakers along critical acoustic dimensions

This paper discusses a study done on the speech production of elementary school aged children.

Emotion perception in speech: Discrimination, identification, and the effects of talker and sentence variability

The primary goal of this project is to study the ability of adult cochlear implant users to perceive emotion through speech alone. A secondary goal of this project is to study the development of emotion perception in normal hearing children to serve as a baseline for comparing emotion perception abilities in similarly-aged children with impaired hearing.

The construction and administration of a word hearing test

This paper describes a new word hearing test in order to test the hearing of school age children.

Communication strategies used by children at a school for the deaf

This paper discusses a study to determine the communication strategies used by hearing impaired children and their effectiveness.

Emotion perception in pre-kindergarten school children at Central Institute for the Deaf

This paper studies the ability of pre-kindergarten students with both normal hearing and impaired hearing to identify emotions in speech through audition only. In addition, the study assesses whether a listener's familiarity with a speaker's voice has an effect on his/her ability to identify the emotion of the speaker.

The relationship of hearing-impaired children's scores on the Beery Visual-Motor Integration Test and the reading subtests of the American School Achievement Test

This paper discusses visual-motor tests and reading tests for hearing impaired children.

Average annual reading growth rate progress of children who are deaf, use a cochlear implant and attend an auditory-oral school

Reading growth rate averages were established for children who are deaf, have a unilateral cochlear implant and attend an auditory-oral school.