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Application of a Vibrotactile Aid in Improvement of Speech Production in Deaf Children

The SRA-10 is a tactile instrument which provides hearing impaired subjects with acoustic transforms that can be easily discriminated on the skin. Whether or not the SRA-10 is an effective means of training speech-language skills in profoundly hearing impaired subjects was the focus of this investigation. Two profoundly hearing impaired subjects were trained on phonetic reception/production tasks and on discrimination of multisyllabic words. Each subject served as his own control, wearing the SRA-10 for 14, 30 minute sessions, and a Bioacoustics 70-B auditory training unit for the same period of time. Results indicated a greater correct performance gain function with the SRA-10 than with the 70-B, suggesting that speech perception/production training using the SRA-10 or similar device would be superior to training using acoustic amplification.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663550
Date12 1900
CreatorsHunt, Sherrie L. (Sherrie Lynn)
ContributorsHenoch, Miriam A., Terrell, Sandra L.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatv, 71 leaves: ill., Text
RightsPublic, Hunt, Sherrie L. (Sherrie Lynn), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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