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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations
Published on: July 1, 2015
[Comparison of vocalization development between normal and congenitally hearing impaired infants during pre-language
Li-hui Huang1, Kimi-taka Kaga, De-min Han
1Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100005, China.
Objective:
To compare the characteristics of vocalization and relevant perceptual characteristics between normal hearing infants and congenitally hearing impaired infants during pre-language period.
Methods:
Speech spectrograms were analyzed, and the presentation time and frequency of pre-canonical babbling, canonical babbling, pointing behaviors and meaningful words were compared and statistically analyzed among 18 normal hearing infants, 11 profoundly congenitally hearing impaired infants that were divided into 2 groups: group A of deaf infants (n = 11) to be aided before 8 months of age and group B of deaf infant (n = 17) to be aided after 8 months of age.
Results:
There was no significant difference in the presentation time and frequency of pre-canonical babbling among the 3 groups. Canonical babbling, pointing behaviors and meaningful words occurred the earliest and with the highest frequency in the normal hearing group, followed by the group A of deaf infants and group B of deaf infants in succession.
Conclusion:
Pre-canonical babbling appears in profoundly hearing impaired infants, suggesting that it is a kind of phonation activity free of hearing feedback. Better language development can be achieved when early intervention is carried out for congenitally hearing impaired infants within 8 months of age.
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