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Testing Speech Recognition in Spanish-English Bilingual Children with the Computer-Assisted Speech Perception Assessment (CASPA): Initial Report

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This study evaluated the English version of Computer-Assisted Speech Perception Assessment (E-CASPA) with Spanish-English bilingual children. E-CASPA has been evaluated with monolingual English speakers ages 5 years and older, but it is unknown whether a separate norm is necessary for bilingual children. Eleven Spanish-English bilingual and 12 English monolingual children (6 to 12 years old) with normal hearing participated. Responses were scored by word, phoneme, consonant, and vowel. Regardless of scores, performance across three signal-to-noise ratio conditions was similar between groups, suggesting that the same norm can be used for both bilingual and monolingual children.

Source: Ear and Hearing

DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000000279

Authors: Paula B. García, Lydia Rosado Rogers, Kanae Nishi

Institutions: University of Utah, Boys Town National Research Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Awards: Core Center for Communication Disorders, CENTER FOR PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN, Short-Term Research Training for AuD Students