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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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Previous cross-sectional research has shown that prelingually deaf children who use cochlear implants (CIs) show enhancement when speech is presented in an audiovisual (AV) format compared to auditory-alone (A-alone) and visual-alone (V-alone) formats. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the development of AV integration skills in this clinical population. We examined the AV sentence comprehension skills of a large group of prelingually deaf children with CIs longitudinally, from pre-implantation to 5 years post-implantation. The children were asked to repeat everyday sentences under three presentation conditions: A-alone, V-alone, and AV. Overall, the results revealed that these children performed better in the AV condition than in the A-alone and V-alone conditions. Performance improved over time after cochlear implantation only for A-alone and AV conditions. Finally, measures of AV sentence comprehension were strongly correlated with other clinical outcome measures of speech perception, speech production, and language processing.
Bibliographic reference. Bergeson, Tonya R. / Pisoni, David B. / Davis, Rebecca A. O. (2003): "A longitudinal study of audiovisual speech perception by prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants", In ICPhS-15, 139-142.