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Use of the speech pattern audiometer and the electropalatograph to explore the speech production/perception relationship in a profoundly deaf child
Author(s) -
Parsloe Rachael
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1080/136828298247947
Subject(s) - psychology , intelligibility (philosophy) , active listening , audiometer , speech production , speech perception , perception , audiology , motor theory of speech perception , cognitive psychology , speech recognition , hearing loss , communication , audiometry , computer science , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience
The use of electropalatography (EPG) in the teaching of new speech skills to deaf speakers, is not widely researched. Whether these skills can be maintained, or whether they can become fully automatic, without enough speech perception to enable auditory self‐monitoring is therefore unclear. Most approaches to increasing speech intelligibility in deaf speakers, rightly, place an emphasis on maximizing residual hearing and listening skills. However, a small amount of evidence exists which suggests that speech production can aid speech perception. This research aimed to measure change in speech perception, through use of the speech pattern audiometer (SPA), whilst working on speech production with the electropalatograph. Intervention took place over a year. The issues of maintenance and generalization are discussed.