Features and Results of a Speech Improvement Experiment on Hard of Hearing Children

Publication date: Available online 16 November 2018Source: Speech CommunicationAuthor(s): László Czap, Judit Mária Pintér, Erika Baksa-VargaAbstractIn this paper we present a two-year-long speech training experiment in which we have studied the extent of improvement owing to multimodal visual support as compared to traditional methods. The hypothesis that children having more severe hearing impairment benefit more from visual assistance was also tested. 30 children had extracurricular lessons with the visual support of the Speech Assistant (SA) system providing complex services. The control group (CG) – that was comprised of another 30 children – got the same amount of extracurricular lessons and was improved with traditional methods, without the help of the SA. A subjective test w...

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