The acoustic approach to speech correction

This paper reviews a study to determine if an auditory approach to speech correction can be of beneift to hearing impaired children who have become visually oriented.

Approaches for speech development

This paper discusses three approaches to speech development in hearing-impaired children: auditory-verbal, association phoneme unit method, and multi-sensory.

The relation between intelligibility and the acoustic characteristics of deaf speech: An acoustic analysis of the vowels /i/ and /aw/, and nasals

This paper discusses a study that examined acoustic measures and the relationship to speech intelligibility of children with cochlear implants.

A comparison of physical measurements of pure-tones, third-octave bands of noise and third-octave bands of speech to subjective judgments of audibility threshold, MCL and UCL for three normally hearing listeners

This study investigates the relation between physical measurements of pure-tones, third-octave bands of noise and third-octave bands of speech and subjective judgments of auditory threshold, most-comfortable listening level (MCL) and uncomfortable-listening level (UCL) for three normally hearing listeners.

A technique to train auditory and visual memory for speech patterns in young hearing-impaired children

This paper details a technique for training auditory memory for length of speech sounds in preschool children with a profound hearing loss.

Intelligibility of one's own speech relative to the speech of others

This paper reviews a speech intelligibility experiment using the same subjects as both talkers and listeners.

Acoustic phonetics applied to auditory training and the teaching of speech to the hearing impaired

This paper is a review of acoustic phonetics as applied to auditory training for hearing impaired children.

Social-emotional adustment in deaf children: An investigation of the relationship between academic and speech perception abilities to social-emotional adjustment

This paper discusses the results of a study undertaken to determine if there is a relationship between psychological variables and cognitive or academic variables among hearing-impaired children.

A comparative study of two methods of measuring loss of capacity to hear speech

This paper discusses a study to compare two tests of loss of capacity to hear speech.

Meaningful use of speech scale: application to orally educated hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a study to determine whether the use of meaningful speech in everyday situations is independent of a cochlear implant.

An examination of the appropriateness of the CID grammatical analysis of elicted language as an instrument to compare language acquisition in deaf children enrolled in cued speech vs. oral and signed english programs

This paper discusses a study to compare test results of the CID GAEL test among hearing impaired children who are enrolled in cued speech vs. oral vs. signed english programs.

Utilizing hearing assistive technology (HAT) to assess speech recognition: Comparison of word recognition scores obtained by hearing instrument users

The ability for individuals with hearing loss to accurately recognize correct versus incorrect verbal responses during traditional word recognition testing across four different listening conditions was assessed.

Phoneme analysis of cochlear implant recipients' responses to CNC words using the MPEAK and SPEAK speech coding strategies of the Nucleus cochlear implant system

This paper discusses a study done to determine how cochlear implant users perceive speech sounds using MPEAK or SPEAK speech coding strategy.

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.

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.