Tone Discrimination and Speech Perception Benefit in Mandarin-Speaking Children Fit With HiRes Fidelity 120 Sound Processing

Abstract

Taken together, the improved tone discrimination and speech perception results, along with subjective improvements in speech fluency, discrimination, and music appreciation, indicate a trend toward superior listening benefit with HiRes 120 compared with standard HiRes in Mandarin-speaking children.

Effect of identification and intervention age on language development for mandarin-speaking deaf children with high family involvement

“…In our study, vocabulary, semantics and syntax were all evaluated in the assessment of perceptive language, but only pragmatics was analyzed in the assessment of expressive language. Several studies [11][12][13][14] showed that articulation, tone, intonation, fluency, and voice all have potentials to affect language performance in Mandarin-speaking deaf children. Furthermore, our number of subjects recruited in the early intervention study group is not many, due to rigorous definition of high familial involvement, thus probably resulting in not strongly significant statistical difference in the assessment of expressive language ability.…”

Perception of Mandarin Chinese with cochlear implants using enhanced temporal pitch cues

“…Comparisons between commercial strategies that differ in the accuracy with which temporal envelopes are conveyed have provided variable results on tasks involving lexical tone (Fu et al, 2004;Han et al, 2009;Chang et al, 2009). Wong et al, (2008) compared the multichannel envelope modulation (MEM) strategy (see Vandali et al, 2005) with ACE and CIS, using nine postlingually deafened Cantonese-speaking CI users.…”

Percepção da fala de usuários de implante coclear com a estratégia HiRes 120: revisão sistemática

“…Of the nine fully revised studies, three were taken off the systematic review -one for testing a version of the HiRes 120 1 strategy research version called SpecRes and two other studies were taken off because of the methodological design presented 2,3 , that is, studies which made a speech perception longitudinal assessment in CI users after conversion from the HiRes to HiRes 120 strategy; nonetheless, they did not have a control group and did not reassess the auditory performance of the participants with the HiRes strategy after using the HiRes 120. This made unfeasible the maintenance of these systematic review studies, since their results could have been influenced by the learning effect, in other words, performance improvement did not happen thanks to the strategy change, but rather by the entire auditory perception, based on a greater auditory experience with the CI.…”