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Communication between mothers and their normal or developmentally dysphasic children in experimental sessions
1991
The interaction of 32 Finnish mother-child dyads were analyzed in order to compare the behavioral features of normally developing (8 boys, 8 girls) and developmentally dysphasic (language-delayed) children (12 boys, 4 girls) doing tasks with their mothers. The average age of the children in the normal group was 4:1 years and in dysphasic group 4:7 years. The groups were matched to educational background of the mothers and to the age of the children. The videotaped observation sessions consisted of a block construction task and a discussion task. Results showed that mothers of dysphasic children tended to be more dominant and controlling and less cooperative. The dysphasic childrens' lower l…
[Difficulties understanding compressed speech in elderly listeners with mild-to-moderate hearing loss].
2007
Objective In this work we evaluated the difficulties in understanding rapid speech (normal, fast and very fast rates) in elderly listeners with and without hearing loss (presbycusis and moderate hearing loss). Rapid speech is common in daily communication, yet few studies have been conducted to assess this problem in Spanish-speaking listeners, as has been done for English speakers. Material and method We compared the recognition of sentences presented at normal, fast, and very fast speech rates in 3 groups of listeners. Recognition scores were correlated to their audiological measures and the score obtained on a Communication Difficulties Questionnaire. Results Compressed sentences were mo…