A Study of Rate of Speech and Intelligibility of Speech in Hearing impaired Pupils of Baghcheban School of Zahedan, Iran
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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.3.2.61-70Keywords:
speed of speech, speech intelligibility, profound hearing impaired, severe hearing impaired, moderately-severe hearing impaired, PersianAbstract
Hearing loss results in disruption of coordination in muscles and structures engaged in speech timing tasks and consequently acquisition of speech sounds is affected. The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the speed and intelligibility of speech in hearing impaired and normal hearing Persian speaking elementary school boys and girls. 33 hearing impaired students are randomly selected from three hearing impaired groups (profound, severe and moderately-severe) and compared with 60 normal hearing students. The speed of speech was measured according to reading Words Per Minute (WPM), and speech intelligibility was tested by a 5-rank scale method. As expected, the normal hearing had more speed and intelligibility of speech in contrast to the hearing impaired group. Also hearing impaired boys had a better speed and intelligibility of speech compared to hearing impaired girls but in normal hearing group, girls had better speed. The amount of P-value for moderately-severe and sever hearing impaired was 0.006 and this amount for profound and moderately-severe hearing impaired was 0.002, so p-value is <0.05 and significantly important. Profound hearing impaired group read the text more slowly and had lower speech intelligibility than other two hearing impaired groups.Downloads
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Nickerson R. S., (1975). Characteristic of the speech of deaf persons. The Volta Review, 77 (6): 342-363.
Oliveira, C. R., Ortiz, K. Z., & Vieira, M. M. (2004). [Dysarthria]: A spesech rate Study. Pro Fono, 16 (1): 39-48.
Pena-Brooks, A., & Hegde, M. N. (2000). Assessment and treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. 2nd Edition. USA: Pro. An International Publisher.
Peng, S. C., Spencer, L. J., & Tomblin, J. B. (2004). Speech intelligibility of pediatric cochlear implant recipients with 7 years of device experience. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 47(6): 1227-36.
Pisoni, D. B. (2000). Cognitive factors and cochlear implants: Some thoughts on perception, learning, and memory in speech perception. Ear and Hearing, 21(1): 70-8.
Richard E. Ham. (1999). Clinical management of stuttering in older children and adults. Gaithersburg, Md: Aspen Publication.
Robb, M.P. and Pang-Ching G.K. (1992). Relative timing characteristic of hearing-impaired speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91: 2954-60.
Seifpanahi, S. A. (2006). Study of oral diadochokinsis, speed of speech and speech intelligibility in hearing impaired and normal hearing students of 15-18 years old of Tehran. Tehran university of Science and Medical, M.A Thesis.
Smith, C. (1975). Residual earing and speech production in deaf children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 18: 795-811.
Svirsky, M. A. (2000). Language development in children with profound and prelingual hearing loss, without cochlear implants. The Annals of otology, rhinology & laryngology Supplement, 85: 99-100.
Tobey, E. A, Geers, A. E., Brenner, C., Altuna, D., & Gabbert, G. (2003). Factors associated with development of speech production skills in children implanted by age five. Ear and Hearing, 24(1 Suppl): 36S-45S.
Tye-Murray, N., & Woodworth, G. (1989) The influence of final-syllable position on the vowel and word duration of deaf talkers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 85(1): 313-21.
Venkatagiri, H. S. (1999) Clinical measurement of rate of reading and discourse in young adults. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 24(3): 2009-26
Zellner, B. (1998) Fast and slow speech rate: A characterization for French. ICSLP, 5th international conference on spoken language processing, Sydney (Australia), 7: 3159-3163.
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SAEDI, M., ALAVI, F., & SHEKARIAN BEHZADI, A. (2013). A Study of Rate of Speech and Intelligibility of Speech in Hearing impaired Pupils of Baghcheban School of Zahedan, Iran. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 3(2), 61-70. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.3.2.61-70