Listeners’ Perceptions of Normal and Voice-Disordered Children

Peer Perceptions of Normal and Voice-Disordered Children

“…1978], dysarthric speech Gies-Zaborowski and Silverman, 1986], as well as for speech disorders in general [Per rin, 1954;Marge, 1966]. Moreover, the present findings are in accord in direction, but not in magnitude, with those obtained by Ruscello et al [ 1988] for adult listeners' per ceptions of voice-disordered and normal speaking children. While both studies show a negative trend toward voice disorders, chil dren exhibit such a trend to a much lesser degree than adult listeners.…”

“…While both studies show a negative trend toward voice disorders, chil dren exhibit such a trend to a much lesser degree than adult listeners. For the adult lis teners in the Ruscello et al [1988] study who listened to the same recordings used in the present study, there were significant differ ences (p < 0.001) in listeners' ratings be tween the normal-speaking and voice-disor dered speakers for all but 2 of the 24 bipolar adjective pairs (91.7%) on the semantic dif ferential scale; for the peer listeners in the present study, there w<ere significant differ ences (p < 0.001) in listeners' ratings be tween the two speaker groups on only 12 of 22 pairs (54.5%) on the semantic differential scale. Perhaps children have not formed firm attitudes toward the communicatively disor dered as adults have.…”

“…etc. A detailed description of the judgmental sessions is described in Ruscello et al [1988], All listeners participated in two judgmental ses sions, with the first 48 phrases on the master tape presented in the first session and the remaining 48 phrases presented in the second session. All judgmen tal sessions were held in a quiet classroom in the school and the master tape was played for all listeners in the same session in a sound field listening situa tion.…”

“…They found that listeners judged dys arthric speakers more negatively than nor mal speakers on all but 2 of the 24 items on the scale. Ruscello et al [1988] compared college students' perceptions of the non speech characteristics of 16 children, 8 with voice disorders and 8 with normal speech characteristics, using the same 24-item se mantic differential scale used in the study. They found that, as was also true for dysarthric speech, voice disorders adversely affected listeners' perceptions of children's nonspeech characteristics.…”

Voice quality of prepubescent children with quiescent recurrent respiratory papillomatosis

“…This finding is significant clinically because poor speech quality in children has been demonstrated to have a negative influence on the perception the listener has of the individual [19,20]. The results of perceptual analysis such as were performed in our study of children with RRP provide clinicians with a baseline of voice quality and a way to monitor the course of therapy to improve voice quality [21][22][23].…”