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Published on: September 7, 2022
Perception of temporally modified speech in auditory neuropathy
1Audiology Unit, ORL Dept., Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. daliamsg_audio@yahoo.com
Objective:
Disrupted auditory nerve activity in auditory neuropathy (AN) significantly impairs the sequential processing of auditory information, resulting in poor speech perception. This study investigated the ability of AN subjects to perceive temporally modified consonant-vowel (CV) pairs and shed light on their phonological awareness skills.
Design:
Four Arabic CV pairs were selected: /ki/-/gi/, /to/-/do/, /si/-/sti/ and /so/-/zo/. The formant transitions in consonants and the pauses between CV pairs were prolonged. Rhyming, segmentation and blending skills were tested using words at a natural rate of speech and with prolongation of the speech stream.
Study Sample:
Fourteen adult AN subjects were compared to a matched group of cochlear-impaired patients in their perception of acoustically processed speech.
Results:
The AN group distinguished the CV pairs at a low speech rate, in particular with modification of the consonant duration. Phonological awareness skills deteriorated in adult AN subjects but improved with prolongation of the speech inter-syllabic time interval.
Conclusions:
A rehabilitation program for AN should consider temporal modification of speech, training for auditory temporal processing and the use of devices with innovative signal processing schemes. Verbal modifications as well as visual imaging appear to be promising compensatory strategies for remediating the affected phonological processing skills.
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