Singing Proficiency of Members of a Choir Formed by Prelingually Deafened Children With Cochlear Implants

Yang, Jing; Liang, Qi; Chen, Haotong; Liu, Yanjun; Xu, Li

doi:10.1044/2019_jslhr-h-18-0385

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“…Therefore, when CI children do not perceive the F0 contours of all tone types, their production tends to be flat with little pitch variation across the duration of the syllables. The flat pitch production was exacerbated when prelingually deafened children with CIs were asked to sing a song ( Nakata et al, 2006 ; Xu et al, 2009 ; Mao et al, 2013 ), although some of them can achieve normal pitch production after rigorous, long-term training ( Yang et al, 2019 ).…”

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Acoustic Assessment of Tone Production of Prelingually-Deafened Mandarin-Speaking Children With Cochlear Implants

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Objective The purpose of the present study was to investigate Mandarin tone production performance of prelingually deafened children with cochlear implants (CIs) using modified acoustic analyses and to evaluate the relationship between demographic factors of those CI children and their tone production ability. Methods Two hundred seventy-eight prelingually deafened children with CIs and 173 age-matched normal-hearing (NH) children participated in the study. Thirty-six monosyllabic Mandarin Chinese words were recorded from each subject. The fundamental frequencies (F0) were extracted from the tone tokens. Two acoustic measures (i.e., differentiability and hit rate) were computed based on the F0 onset and offset values (i.e., the tone ellipses of the two-dimensional [2D] method) or the F0 onset, midpoint, and offset values (i.e., the tone ellipsoids of the 3D method). The correlations between the acoustic measures as well as between the methods were performed. The relationship between demographic factors and acoustic measures were also explored. Results The children with CIs showed significantly poorer performance in tone differentiability and hit rate than the NH children. For both CI and NH groups, performance on the two acoustic measures was highly correlated with each other ( r values: 0.895–0.961). The performance between the two methods (i.e., 2D and 3D methods) was also highly correlated ( r values: 0.774–0.914). Age at implantation and duration of CI use showed a weak correlation with the scores of acoustic measures under both methods. These two factors jointly accounted for 15.4–18.9% of the total variance of tone production performance. Conclusion There were significant deficits in tone production ability in most prelingually deafened children with CIs, even after prolonged use of the devices. The strong correlation between the two methods suggested that the simpler, 2D method seemed to be efficient in acoustic assessment for lexical tones in hearing-impaired children. Age at implantation and especially the duration of CI use were significant, although weak, predictors for tone development in pediatric CI users. Although a large part of tone production ability could not be attributed to these two factors, the results still encourage early implantation and continual CI use for better lexical tone development in Mandarin-speaking pediatric CI users.

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“…Kim et al [2017] used traditional Korean music instruments (e.g., gayageum, daegeum, and janggu) in their study. The studies by Welch et al [2015], Innes-Brown et al [2013], and Yang et al [2019] focused on singing skills of the participants. The main activities of the music lesson implemented in these studies were singing practices.…”

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“…Thus, most of the studies used catchy children songs like "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" or "Frére Jacques." Yang et al [2019] used selfcomposed songs that were specifically composed for the choir team. Di Nardo et al [2015] and Rocca [2015], on the other hand, used a specific program that had been developed and was available in the market.…”

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“…In terms of duration of the music training, the 8 studies conducted music training for a period of 6 months or shorter [Koşaner et al, 2012;Innes-Brown et al, 2013;Di Nardo et al, 2015;Fu et al, 2015;Good et al, 2017;Kim et al, 2017;Bedoin et al, 2018;Cheng et al, 2018], and 4 studies utilized the training that lasted from 6 to 24 months [Torppa et al, 2014a, b;Torppa et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2019]. Another 2 studies [Yucel et al, 2009;Chen et al, 2010]…”

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Crucial Music Components Needed for Speech Perception Enhancement of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Background: Although many clinicians have attempted music training for the hearing-impaired children, no specific effects have yet been reported for individual music components. This paper seeks to discover specific music components that help in improving speech perception of children with cochlear implants (CI) and to identify the effective training periods and methods needed for each component. Method: While assessing 5 electronic databases, that is, ScienceDirect, Scopus, PubMed, CINAHL, and Web of Science, 1,638 articles were found initially. After the screening and eligibility assessment stage based on the Participants, Intervention, Comparisons, Outcome, and Study Design (PICOS) inclusion criteria, 18 of 1,449 articles were chosen. Results: A total of 18 studies and 14 studies (209 participants) were analyzed using a systematic review and meta-analysis, respectively. No publication bias was detected based on an Egger’s regression result even though the funnel plot was asymmetrical. The results of the meta-analysis revealed that the largest improvement was seen for rhythm perception, followed by the perception of pitch and harmony and smallest for timbre perception after the music training. The duration of training affected the rhythm, pitch, and harmony perception but not the timbre. Interestingly, musical activities, such as singing, produced the biggest effect size, implying that children with CI obtained the greatest benefits of music training by singing, followed by playing an instrument and achieved the smallest effect by only listening to musical stimuli. Significant improvement in pitch perception helped with the enhancement of prosody perception. Conclusion: Music training can improve the music perception of children with CI and enhance their speech prosody. Long training duration was shown to provide the largest training effect of the children’s perception improvement. The children with CI learned rhythm and pitch better than they did with harmony and timbre. These results support the finding of past studies that with music training, both rhythm and pitch perception can be improved, and it also helps in the development of prosody perception.

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“…The ability to use mode (i.e., pitch) cues to judge emotion in music increases with longer periods of acoustic hearing prior to implantation and better residual hearing in the non-implanted ear (Hopyan et al, 2012;Giannantonio et al, 2015). Music perception and singing also appear to improve for children with CIs who receive musical training (Giannantonio et al, 2015;Polonenko et al, 2017;Yang et al, 2019). Moreover, there are reports of individual CI users who have good music perception (Maarefvand et al, 2013), suggesting possibilities for improved music listening through CIs.…”

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Music Perception Testing Reveals Advantages and Continued Challenges for Children Using Bilateral Cochlear Implants

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Singing Proficiency of Members of a Choir Formed by Prelingually Deafened Children With Cochlear Implants

Cited by 11 publications

References 73 publications

Acoustic Assessment of Tone Production of Prelingually-Deafened Mandarin-Speaking Children With Cochlear Implants

Acoustic Assessment of Tone Production of Prelingually-Deafened Mandarin-Speaking Children With Cochlear Implants

Crucial Music Components Needed for Speech Perception Enhancement of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Music Perception Testing Reveals Advantages and Continued Challenges for Children Using Bilateral Cochlear Implants

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