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Behavioral Assessment of Hearing in 2 to 4 Year-old Children: A Two-interval, Observer-based Procedure Using Conditioned Play-based Responses
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Influence of environment on speech-sound discrimination: findings from a longitudinal study
Dennis L Molfese1, Victoria J Molfese, Alexandra Fonaryova Key
1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA. dmolfese@louisville.edu
Abstract:
Event-related potentials (ERPs) from 134 children were obtained at 3 and 8 years of age and recorded to a series of consonant-vowel speech syllables and their nonspeech analogues. The HOME inventory was administered to these same children at 3 and 8 years of age and the sample was divided into 2 groups (low vs. high) based on their HOME scores. Discriminant functions analyses using ERP responses to speech and non-speech analogues successfully classified HOME scores obtained at 3 and 8 years of age and discriminated between children who received low vs. high levels of stimulation for language and reading.
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