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- Title
Performance of Children With Hearing Loss on an Audiovisual Version of a Nonword Repetition Task.
- Authors
Al-Salim, Sarah; Moeller, Mary Pat; McGregor, Karla K.
- Abstract
Purpose: The aims of this study were to (a) determine if a high-quality adaptation of an audiovisual nonword repetition task can be completed by children with wide-ranging hearing abilities and to (b) examine whether performance on that task is sensitive to child demographics, hearing status, language, working memory, and executive function abilities. Method: An audiovisual version of a nonword repetition task was adapted and administered to 100 school-aged children grouped by hearing status: 35 with normal hearing, 22 with mild bilateral hearing loss, 17 with unilateral hearing loss, and 26 cochlear implant users. Participants also completed measures of vocabulary, working memory, and executive function. A generalized linear mixed-effects model was used to analyze performance on the nonword repetition task. Results: All children were able to complete the nonword repetition task. Children with unilateral hearing loss and children with cochlear implants repeated nonwords with less accuracy than normal-hearing peers. After adjusting for the influence of vocabulary and working memory, main effects were found for syllable length and hearing status, but no interaction effect was observed. Conclusions: The audiovisual nonword repetition task captured individual differences in the performance of children with wide-ranging hearing abilities. The task could act as a useful tool to aid in identifying children with unilateral or mild bilateral hearing loss who have language impairments beyond those imposed by the hearing loss.
- Subjects
AUDIOVISUAL materials; AUDIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE studies; HEARING; HEARING disorders in children; LANGUAGE &; languages; MEMORY; SPEECH evaluation; VOCABULARY; CHILDREN with disabilities; EXECUTIVE function; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools, 2020, Vol 51, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0161-1461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2019_LSHSS-OCHL-19-0016