Download or read book The Effect of Three Selected Sensory Presentation Conditions on the Pitch Matching Accuracy of Normal Hearing and Hearing Impaired Children written by Juliana R. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Models of Music Therapy Interventions in School Settings written by Brian L. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Master s Theses Directories written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearing Loss written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.

Download or read book Sensory Capabilities of Hearing impaired Children written by Rachel E. Stark and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Motor Responses Versus Verbal Responses on Sound Localization Accuracy in Young Children with Normal Hearing written by Karen Ann Martin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationale. Sound localization is the ability to pinpoint the origin of a sound source within an auditory space. This ability is essential for safety, orientation, and communication. Poor sound localization abilities, especially in young children, can have a negative impact on academics and safety. This issue is exacerbated when there is a hearing loss. Young children do not localize as well as adults until age 6 or older. Data regarding sound localization accuracy in preschoolers and young children have been sparse. Recently, with the increasing numbers of cochlear implantation (especially in children) there have been more studies investigating sound localization in children. However, these studies mainly focused on children with hearing impairments. Most of them included children with normal hearing only as a reference or for comparison. Similarities and/or differences in sound source localization accuracy between children who are hearing impaired and those with normal hearing were investigated but the mode(s) of response were not regulated or examined. The literature presents localization accuracy ranges for young children with normal hearing but does not offer any knowledge regarding the effect of various response modes on sound localization accuracy. Younger children with normal hearing show greater localization error than older children with normal hearing. This suggests that the auditory system in younger children is still maturing. There is a need to investigate sound source localization accuracy in young children with normal hearing in order to identify factors that may facilitate this skill. This study explored the effect of a motor (movement) response on sound source localization accuracy compared to the traditional verbal response. The purpose was to identify any actors that could enhance sound source localization accuracy in children who have normal hearing in order to gain insight regarding possible auditory training strategies that could be effective in building sound source localization skills especially in children with hearing impairments and/or less mature auditory systems. It was proposed that embodiment, the incorporation of the body through motor movements within the auditory environment, could facilitate auditory spatial mapping and thus yield better sound localization accuracy." Methods. Sound localization accuracy was examined in young children, aged 3 and 5 years old, with normal hearing. Each participant in both age groups was randomly divided into two groups by response modes (verbal or motor) and asked to localize a sound source using that mode. The sound localization task was then repeated using only the verbal response mode. Testing occurred in a sound booth containing a semi-circular array of 15 loudspeakers placed at 10o intervals along the frontal horizontal plane from - 70o (left) to +70o (right) azimuth. There was a small child-friendly picture attached underneath each loudspeaker for sound source identification purposes. The stimulus was the speech spondee "baseball". Participants either sat in a chair and verbally stated the location of the origin of the sound by naming the picture underneath the corresponding loudspeaker (verbal response) or by walking over and touching/pointing to the loudspeaker/picture from which the sound originated (motor response). There were seven (7) sound source (target) locations, with a total of five (5) trials randomly presented from" "each target loudspeaker for a total of 35 trials per task. There were two blocks of trials (tasks)." "Results. Sound localization accuracy was quantified using the root-mean-square error measure. Data was analyzed using the Generalized Estimating Equations - Robust Estimator statistical method. There was a statistically significant main effect for age, with the 5-year-olds showing better performance overall. There was not a significant main effect for mode of response or task order. There was however a significant interaction for age*mode*order. The 3-year-old Verbal 1st Group showed significantly better accuracy for the second sound localization task. The 5-year-old Motor 1st Group showed significantly worse accuracy for the second sound localization task in which they had to provide a verbal response." "Conclusions. Performance improved when the same response mode was used for both sound localization tasks but was degraded when the sound localization task was repeated using a different response mode. The initial motor responses did not facilitate auditory spatial mapping. This could be due to immature auditory pathway development and/or the increased cognitive strain of trying to break the memory pattern formed by the initial motor responses in order to transition to the verbal responses required during the second task. The results showed that children do not perform well when asked to change their mode of response when learning a new skill. Using the same mode of response twice emphasized the benefit of practice and repetition. Practice and repetition may be a more effective training technique than response mode for skill building especially for those who have difficulty with sound localization."

Download or read book The Articulation Functions and Test retest Performance of Normal Hearing Children on Three Speech Discrimination Tests written by Mary Elizabeth Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Comparison of the Effects of Modification in the Presentation of the PPVT R on the Scores for Normal Hearing and Hearing Impaired Children written by Kimberly Rae Scott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pitch Perception and Harmonic Resolvability in Normal hearing and Hearing impaired Listeners written by Joshua G. W. Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (cont.) However, further results in the third and fourth studies suggested a role for harmonic resolvability in pitch discrimination, inconsistent with the lack of dependence on resolvability of the modified autocorrelation model. In normal-hearing subjects at high stimulus levels and in hearing-impaired subjects, a wider spacing between adjacent frequency components, related to a reduction in frequency selectivity, was required to yield accurate FO discrimination performance. Thus, resolved harmonics may be necessary for accurate FO encoding, and the pitch discrimination deficit associated with sensorineural hearing loss may be related to a reduction in frequency selectivity. These results support spectral or spectrotemporal pitch models that derive FO from resolved harmonics, or a place-dependent temporal model whereby peripheral filter bandwidths limit the range of detectable periodicities. Because spectral processing plays an important role in pitch discrimination, hearing-impaired and cochlear-implant listeners may benefit from hearing-aid fitting procedures and cochlear-implant processing algorithms that emphasize or enhance spectral place cues.

Download or read book A Comparison of the Discrimination Abilities of Unilateral Hearing Impaired Children and Normal Hearing Children in Various Conditions of Noise written by Jane Frank Rowen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blind Vision written by Zaira Cattaneo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities. Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of "seeing" as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a concept subject to investigation. In this book, Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. Drawing on behavioral and neurophysiological data, Cattaneo and Vecchi analyze research on mental imagery, spatial cognition, and compensatory mechanisms at the sensorial, cognitive, and cortical levels in individuals with complete or profound visual impairment. They find that our brain does not need our eyes to "see." Cattaneo and Vecchi address critical questions of broad importance: the relationship of visual perception to imagery and working memory and the extent to which mental imagery depends on normal vision; the functional and neural relationships between vision and the other senses; the specific aspects of the visual experience that are crucial to cognitive development or specific cognitive mechanisms; and the extraordinary plasticity of the brain—as illustrated by the way that, in the blind, the visual cortex may be reorganized to support other perceptual or cognitive funtions. In the absence of vision, the other senses work as functional substitutes and are often improved. With Blind Vision, Cattaneo and Vecchi take on the "tyranny of the visual," pointing to the importance of the other senses in cognition.

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index 1861 1972 Education written by Xerox University Microfilms and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition written by Marc Marschark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the intersection of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuroscience with regard to deaf individuals has received increasing attention from a variety of academic and educational audiences. Both research and pedagogy have addressed questions about whether deaf children learn in the same ways that hearing children learn, how signed languages and spoken languages might affect different aspects of cognition and cognitive development, and the ways in which hearing loss influences how the brain processes and retains information. There are now a number of preliminary answers to these questions, but there has been no single forum in which research into learning and cognition is brought together. The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Learning and Cognition aims to provide this shared forum, focusing exclusively on learning, cognition, and cognitive development from theoretical, psychological, biological, linguistic, social-emotional, and educational perspectives. Each chapter includes state-of-the-art research conducted and reviewed by international experts in the area. Drawing this research together, this volume allows for a synergy of ideas that possesses the potential to move research, theory, and practice forward.

Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Download or read book Cochlear Implants written by John K. Niparko and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this book provides an in-depth discussion on prosthetic restoration of hearing via implantation. The text succinctly discusses the scientific principles behind cochlear implants, examines the latest technology, and offers practical advice on how to assess candidates, how to implant the devices, and what rehabilitation is most effective. The authors thoroughly examine the outcomes of cochlear implantation, the impact on the patient's quality of life, the benefits in relation to the costs, and the implications of cochlear implants for language and speech acquisition and childhood education.