Parental comparison of the prosodic and paralinguistic ability of children with cochlear implants and their normal hearing siblings

David Jackson Morris; Lærke Christiansen; Cathrine  Uglebjerg; K. Jonas Brännström; Eva-Signe Falkenberg

doi:10.3109/02699206.2015.1055803

Parental comparison of the prosodic and paralinguistic ability of children with cochlear implants and their normal hearing siblings

David Jackson Morris, Lærke Christiansen, Cathrine Uglebjerg, K. Jonas Brännström, Eva-Signe Falkenberg

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

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The everyday communication of children is commonly observed by their parents. This paper examines the responses of parents (n=18) who had both a Cochlear Implant (CI) and a Normal Hearing (NH) child. Through an online questionnaire, parents rated the ability of their children on a gamut of speech communication competencies encountered in everyday settings. Comparative parental ratings of the CI children were significantly poorer than those of their NH siblings in speaker recognition, happy and sad emotion, and question versus statement identification. Parents also reported that they changed the vocal effort and the enunciation of their speech when they addressed their CI child and that their CI child consistently responded when their name was called in normal, but not in noisy backgrounds. Demographic factors were not found to be linked to the parental impressions.

Original language	English
Journal	Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
Volume	29
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	840-51
ISSN	0269-9206
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2015.1055803
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2015

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Parental comparison of the prosodic and paralinguistic ability of children with cochlear implants and their normal hearing siblings. / Morris, David Jackson; Christiansen, Lærke; Uglebjerg, Cathrine et al.

In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 29, No. 11, 02.11.2015, p. 840-51.

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