Visual intelligibility of words in isolation and in sentence context

This paper reviews a study to examine the effects on lip reading performance of word position within a sentence.

Detection of words in real-speech background noise by profoundly deaf children

This paper discusses a study to assess the performance of profoundly deaf children in detection tasks with speech as the background noise.

Multiple meanings of words in arithmetic textbooks

This paper discusses the differences among arithmetic textbooks and how this poses problems for hearing impaired children.

Auditory and audio-visual reception of words in noise by observers with normal and impaired hearing

This dissertation examines auditory perception and audio-visual reception in noise for both hearing-impaired and normal hearing persons, with a goal of determining some of the noise conditions under which amplified acoustic cues for speech can be beneficial to hearing-impaired persons.

The development of a phonetically balanced word recognition test in the Ilocano language

Three different phonetically-balanced 50-word recognition lists were constructed in the Ilocano language. Factors that were considered in the construction of these lists were: phonetic balance, syllable structure, and commonness of words.