Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In a natural family environment, fathers tend to talk less than mothers, and possibly more to sons than to daughters.There is conflicting evidence showing mothers' word use with sons and daughters.Further, preschoolers who are hard-of-hearing have been shown to encounter a similar number of parent utterances as compared with their typically-developing peers.This work looks at fathers and mothers talking to their preschool boys and girls and explores whether parents' word use changes when their child has hearing loss.Here we used all-day recordings from a wearable child audio recorder, processed using automatic speech processing algorithms to determine estimated number of syllables spoken by fathers, mothers, boys, and girls.About half of the participants were children with hearing loss and about half were typically developing.Results showed that mothers talked more than fathers overall, parents offered about the same amount of talk to boys or girls who were typically developing, fathers talked more to their boys who were hard-of-hearing, and mothers talked more to their girls who were hard-of-hearing.The asymmetry of fathers talking more to boys with hearing loss and mothers talking more to girls with hearing loss is considered in terms of Vygotsky's Apprentice Model.
DOI: 10.1121/2.0000532
Authors: Mark VanDam, Carsen Jessup, Tracy Tully
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: RIDIR: Collaborative Research: Enabling Access to and Analysis of Shared Daylong Child and Family Audio Data, G1273043980, G2346282543, G2699912611, RIDIR: Collaborative Research: Enabling Access to and Analysis of Shared Daylong Child and Family Audio Data, G456474487, RIDIR: Collaborative Research: Enabling Access to and Analysis of Shared Daylong Child and Family Audio Data
OpenAlex ID: W2743694990