A TEST OF CHILDREN'S ENGLISH/SPANISH SPEECH PERCEPTION IN NOISE OR SPEECH MASKERS

儿童在噪音或言语掩蔽器中的英语/西班牙语言语感知测试

• 批准号: 9979834
• 负责人: Emily Buss
• 金额: $ 47.16万
• 依托单位: FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS' HOME
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-10 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9979834
• 关键词: 12 year old; Age; Audiology; Auditory; Biometry; Child; Childhood; Clinic; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical assessments; Cochlear Implants; Cognitive; Complex; Computer software; Computers; Data; Decision Making; Development; Devices; Economics; English Language; Ensure; Environment; Exposure to; Face; Family; Feasibility Studies; Feedback; Floor; Goals; Healthcare; Hearing; Hearing Aids; Hispanics; Home environment; Household; Instruction; Intervention; Laboratories; Language; Language Delays; Language Tests; Life; Masks; Materials Testing; Measures; Noise; Nursery Schools; Output; Parents; Patients; Performance; Peripheral; Prevalence; Procedures; Process; Production; Psychometrics; Questionnaires; Research; Resources; Route; School-Age Population; Schools; Science; Sensory; Speech; Speech Delay; Speech Perception; Stream; System; Test Result; Testing; Time; Validity and Reliability; Work; age group; bilingualism; clinical care; clinically significant; deaf; hearing impairment; improved; instrument; kindergarten; research clinical testing; response; skills; social; sound; speech in noise; tool; touchscreen

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Over 15% of children in the US are raised in Spanish-speaking homes. However, clinical assessment of speech perception in preschoolers and school-age children is generally performed using English materials presented in quiet, in steady noise, or in multi-talker babble. We know that speech perception scores are better when testing is performed in a listener’s native language. We also know that hearing impairment has a more detrimental effect on speech perception in a complex masker (e.g., 2-3 streams of speech) than in noise or babble. Therefore, the typical approach of evaluating Spanish-speaking children’s speech perception, using English targets and steady noise, is unlikely to provide a full account of functional hearing. The goal of this proposal is to develop a clinical test for evaluating masked speech perception in English and in Spanish, in either a complex speech or a steady noise background. The proposed work builds on the feasibility study of Calandruccio et al. (2014b), which introduced a four-alternative, forced-choice picture-pointing threshold estimation task that can be administered in either English or Spanish. Target words are disyllabic nouns familiar to young children, and maskers are either speech-shaped noise or two-talker speech. The recorded instructions and picture-pointing response means the tester need not be fluent in the test language. The four- alternative format also accommodates assessment of children with poor speech production. Aim 1 will refine the test materials and procedures, including optimization of threshold estimation parameters and implementation of software for a clinical setting. Aim 2 will establish test reliability and validity across listener age and hearing status. Threshold norms and estimates of psychometric function slopes will be obtained for 4- to 12-year-olds, including both Spanish/English bilingual and monolingual English speakers. Performance of children with hearing loss, including hearing aid and cochlear implant users, will be evaluated relative to estimates of functional performance in real-life listening situations. Aim 3 will evaluate the test procedures in seven busy pediatric audiology clinics. Test results will be compared with measures that are currently used to evaluate Spanish- and English-speaking children (e.g., pure-tone thresholds and English-language PBK scores), and with questionnaire data from parents regarding language proficiency and functional hearing ability. Clinician feedback will be solicited to further improve test procedures. The research team assembled to carry out the proposed work includes expertise in basic hearing science, auditory development, clinical research, bilingualism, and the provision of clinical care, ensuring that the final product will be a clinical instrument that is both rigorous and practical. The end result is expected to improve our ability to audiologically evaluate and manage children who speak English, Spanish or both languages.

项目摘要/摘要 在美国，超过15％的儿童在讲西班牙语的房屋中抚养长大。但是，临床评估 学龄前儿童和学龄儿童的语音感知通常使用英语材料进行 以安静，稳定的噪音或多对话者的bab狂表示。我们知道语音感知得分更好 用听众的母语进行测试时。我们也知道听力障碍有更多 对复杂掩蔽器中语音感知的不利影响（例如，2-3个语音流），而不是噪声或 潺潺。因此，使用的典型方法是评估讲西班牙语的儿童的言语感知 英语目标和稳定的噪音不可能提供功能听力的完整说明。目标的目标 建议是制定临床测试，以评估英语和西班牙语的蒙版语音感知，in 复杂的语音或稳定的噪音背景。拟议的工作以可行性研究为基础 Calandruccio等。 （2014b），引入了四局部，强制选择的图像点阈值 可以用英语或西班牙语管理的估计任务。目标单词是disyllabic名词 幼儿和掩饰者熟悉的是言语噪音，或者是两讲话者的演讲。记录 说明和图形响应意味着测试仪不需要流利的测试语言。四人 替代格式还接受对语音生产不良的儿童的评估。 AIM 1将完善 测试材料和程序，包括优化阈值估计参数和 实施用于临床环境的软件。 AIM 2将在听众之间建立测试可靠性和有效性 年龄和听力状态。对于4- 对于12岁的孩子，包括西班牙语/英语双语和单语言英语的人。性能 听力损失的儿童，包括助听器和人工耳蜗使用者，将对 在现实聆听情况下的功能性能估计。 AIM 3将评估测试程序 七个繁忙的儿科听力诊所。测试结果将与当前曾经用于的措施进行比较 评估西班牙语和英语儿童（例如，纯色阈值和英语PBK 分数），并提供来自父母的问卷数据，涉及语言水平和功能听证 能力。临床医生的反馈将得到巩固，以进一步改善测试程序。研究团队聚集到 进行拟议的工作包括基本听力科学，听觉发展，临床方面的专业知识 研究，双语和提供临床护理，确保最终产品将成为临床 既严格又实用的仪器。预计最终结果将提高我们的听觉能力 评估和管理说英语，西班牙语或两种语言的孩子。

项目成果

Building on the Academic Legacy of Pat Stelmachowicz and other Pioneers in Developmental Psychoacoustics and Pediatric Audiology: The Children's English/Spanish Speech Recognition Test (ChEgSS).

以 Pat Stelmachowicz 和其他发展心理声学和儿童听力学先驱的学术遗产为基础：儿童英语/西班牙语语音识别测试 (ChEgSS)。

• DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1764135
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Seminars in hearing
• 作者: Leibold,LoriJ;Calandruccio,Lauren;Buss,Emily
• 通讯作者: Buss,Emily

Masked-Speech Recognition for Linguistically Diverse Populations: A Focused Review and Suggestions for the Future.

针对语言多样化人群的蒙面语音识别：重点回顾和对未来的建议。

• DOI: 10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00011
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
• 作者: Cowan,Tiana;Paroby,Caroline;Leibold,LoriJ;Buss,Emily;Rodriguez,Barbara;Calandruccio,Lauren
• 通讯作者: Calandruccio,Lauren

Band importance for speech-in-speech recognition.

• DOI: 10.1121/10.0005762
• 发表时间: 2021-08
• 期刊: JASA express letters
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: Buss E;Bosen A
• 通讯作者: Bosen A

Language Proficiency and Dominance Considerations When Working With Spanish-English Bilingual Adults.

与西班牙语-英语双语成人一起工作时的语言能力和优势考虑因素。

• DOI: 10.1044/2019_aja-19-0028
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: American journal of audiology
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Vicente,Manuel;Calandruccio,Lauren;Miller,MargaretK;Browning,JennaM;Oleson,Jacob;Leibold,LoriJ
• 通讯作者: Leibold,LoriJ