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 effects of hearing aid gain on speech perception and the articulation index

This paper discusses a study to determine if changes in aided articulation indices predict changes in aided speech perception ability.

The effects of varying amounts of visual information on telephone intelligibility

This study examines whether similarly reduced amounts of visible articulatory information has potential for increasing speech intelligibility over the telephone to hearing-impaired listeners.

The effects of varying amounts of visual information on telephone intelligibility

This study examines whether similarly reduced amounts of visible articulatory information has potential for increasing speech intelligibility over the telephone to hearing-impaired listeners.

The effects of the SKILL Program on the language and socialization of hearing impaired children

This study will examine the effects of the SKILL Program on the social and pragmatic skills of the hearing-impaired children in the Pre-K department of the Central Institute for the Deaf. It will assess language and social skills necessary for the children to be successful in the mainstream and how having hearing peers may have contributed to their gaining of those skills.

The effects of a phonological awareness training program for hearing-impaired children

This paper examines the effectiveness of a phonological awareness program for hearing impaired children.

The effects of phonological and semantic priming in speech production

This paper is a review of experiments to investigate the influence of experimental task, level of processing, and time course in speech production via the priming paradigm.

The effects of group-based psychosocial therapy on conversational fluency and communication handicap

This paper studies whether a combination of group rehabilitation in conjunction with psychosocial therapy enhances conversational fluency and diminishes communication handicap in cochlear implant recipients.

The effects of inadvertent venting introduced by a probe tube in real ear gain

This paper discusses a study to determine if inadvertent venting introduced by a probe-tube significantly alters real ear gain measurements when vented earmolds fit tightly.

Observations on the effects of a single-channel cochlear implant on a seven year old

This paper presents observations on the effects of a single-channel cochlear implant on a seven year-old hearing impaired child.

The effects of training in the tracking procedure on the speechreading ability of two profoundly hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses a study to determine whether training employing in the tracking procedure would prove beneficial to profoundly hearing-impaired children in comprehension of spoken language.

The effects of earmuffs and hearing impairment on word discrimination in noise

This paper discusses a study to determine selection of hearing protective devices to ensure optimum speech discrimination.

The effects of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on auditory brainstem responses (ABR) in neonates

This paper presents a study of the effects of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on the auditory brainstem response (ABR) of twenty-three neonates, and whether there was asymmetric ABRs in the neonates who had ECMO.

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.

The effects of noise exposure on rock bands

This paper describes a study undertaken to study noise levels of rock music.