NIH R01 · 2025
The Effects of Early Acoustic Hearing for Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT For children with hearing loss (HL), speech perception assessments are fundamental to guiding all aspects of habilitation including device candidacy, validation, and therapy goals. Good speech perception requires not only identifying individual vowel and consonant sounds (segmental) but also perceiving prosodic aspects of speech such as intonation, stress and rhythm (suprasegmental). The role of segmental perception for development of spoken language and reading is firmly established for children with typical hearing (TH). The complementary role of suprasegmental perception for spoken language acquisition and, more recently, for reading development has also been…
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