Masked Speech Recognition and Reading Ability in School-Age Children: Is There a Relationship?

Conclusions No relationship was found between phonological awareness and/or decoding ability and a child's ability to benefit from spectral or temporal modulations. In addition, phonological awareness and/or decoding ability was not related to speech recognition in a 2-talker masker. Last, these data suggest that the between-listeners variability often observed in 2-talker maskers for adults may be smaller for children. The reasons for this child –adult difference need to be further explored.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5913547
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research