... of physiological origin, while other research indicates that it is acquired to enhance perceptual contrasts between vowels. Methods: This study explored the impact of hearing loss on IF0 in six-year-old children, both with and without hearing impairment. The Belgian Dutch vowels produced by the children in both...

...Ossama A. Sobhy; Rania M. Abdou; Sara Magdy Ibrahim; Nesrine H. Hamouda Background: The role of prosody in language acquisition and effective communication is documented in research. Nevertheless, rehabilitation of prosodic skills in children with hearing impairment using hearing aids or cochlear...

...Tanja Etz; Henning Reetz; Carla Wegener Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the acoustic features of infant cries in order to find differences between infants with normal development, hearing impairment (HI) and unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP). The study focused on two issues: (1...

...Wei-Chun Che; Yu-Tsai Wang; Hsiu-Jung Lu; Jordan R. Green Objective: Most people with severe to profound hearing impairment (SHI) exhibit speech breathing changes, but little is known about the breath group (BG) structure for this population. The purposes of this study were to investigate, compared...

...Katrin Neumann; Dafydd Stephens Objective: To develop a clear and meaningful set of definitions of types of hearing impairment. Method: A critical analysis was made of previous definitions together with a consideration of current knowledge of functions and dysfunctions of the auditory system...

... and compared to a sample of 98 Hessian and 355 German children who were detected in 2005 as hearing-impaired but not by an UNHS. The UNHS group had a PASS rate of 97.0%. Forty-nine hearing-impaired children were diagnosed at a median age of 3.1 months and treated at a median age of 3.5 months. Corresponding...

...Elisabeth Scheiner; Kurt Hammerschmidt; Uwe Jürgens; Petra Zwirner The aim of the study was to compare the vocalizations of normally hearing and profoundly hearing-impaired infants in the first year of life. After the first recording all hearing-impaired infants were provided with hearing aids. We...