Relationship between Two Nontraditional Procedures for Assessing Speech-Sound Discrimination

Bountress, Nicholas G.; Sever, Joseph C.; Williams, Joyce T.

doi:10.2466/pms.1989.69.2.499

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“…Previous studies have also found significant differences in children's performance on different speech discrimination tasks (Concanon, 1996;Bountress, 1984). However, contrary to the findings reported here, Bountress et al (1989) reported no significant difference in performance using the same two task paradigms. Participants in the Bountress study were older, aged 6Á10 years, and had speech disorders.…”

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Assessing speech perception in young children and relationships with language skills

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Rosen

Coleman

2009

International Journal of Audiology

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Few materials are available to assess speech perceptual skills in young children without hearing impairments. However, children with a range of developmental conditions are at risk of speech discrimination deficits. Tasks that reliably assess speech perception skills are thus necessary for research and clinical practice. The development and application of two speech perception tests are described. Data were collected from 105 children, aged 4-5 years, attending mainstream schools, on two tasks, mispronunciation detection and non-word XAB, in quiet and in a background of multi-talker babble. Children's receptive language skills were also measured. Performance on mispronunciation detection was significantly better than on the XAB non-word task, and significantly better in quiet than in babble. Performance significantly improved with age, and speech discrimination was significantly related to receptive language abilities. Scores obtained in quiet and in babble were highly correlated and findings suggest there may be no advantage to testing in noise, except to avoid ceiling effects on performance. These tasks prove useful in the assessment of young children who may have speech discrimination deficits.

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Assessing speech perception in young children and relationships with language skills

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Rosen

Coleman

2009

International Journal of Audiology

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“…The idea that individuals may respond differently to infrequent and frequent stimuli has been heavily exploited in sensation and perception studies using electrophysiological techniques in which neural responses to a less frequent (oddball) stimulus are compared to responses to a more frequent (standard) stimulus (see Picton, Alain, Otten, Ritter, & Achim, 2000, for a review). Only a handful of studies have used this technique with behavioral paradigms (Bountress, Sever, & Williams, 1989;Doehring, 1969;Strange, Polka, & Dittmann, 1986), and none that we know of with infants. However, it is possible that the physiological response to infrequency may also manifest itself as a behavioral response, such as increased looking time.…”

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Assessing Speech Discrimination in Individual Infants

Houston

Horn

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Assessing speech discrimination skills in individual infants from clinical populations (e.g., infants with hearing impairment) has important diagnostic value. However, most infant speech discrimination paradigms have been designed to test group effects rather than individual differences. Other procedures suffer from high attrition rates. In this study, we developed 4 variants of the Visual Habituation Procedure (VHP) and assessed their robustness in detecting individual 9-month-old infants' ability to discriminate highly contrastive nonwords. In each variant, infants were first habituated to audiovisual repetitions of a nonword (seepug) before entering the test phase. The test phase in Experiment 1 (extended variant) consisted of 7 old trials (seepug) and 7 novel trials (boodup) in alternating order. In Experiment 2, we tested 3 novel variants that incorporated methodological features of other behavioral paradigms. For the oddity variant, only 4 novel trials and 10 old trials were used. The stimulus alternation variant was identical to the extended variant except that novel trials were Send correspondence to Derek M. Houston,

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Evaluación de la discriminación de habla en preescolares: comparación de las pruebas ABX y AX

Cervera-Mérida

Fernández

2013

Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología

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Relationship between Two Nontraditional Procedures for Assessing Speech-Sound Discrimination

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Assessing speech perception in young children and relationships with language skills

Assessing speech perception in young children and relationships with language skills

Assessing Speech Discrimination in Individual Infants

Evaluación de la discriminación de habla en preescolares: comparación de las pruebas ABX y AX

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