Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Hearing & Speech Sciences"
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(2020-04-02)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesWhile the impact of various voice disorders on patient quality of life has been well characterized, the mechanisms leading to the development of voice disorders are not well understood. There is anecdotal evidence that ...
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(2020-03-31)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesMotion, as a cue for creating a perceptual difference between a desired (i.e. target) signal and background noise (i.e. distracters), has been investigated previously with limited success. A new approach was taken to ...
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(2020-03-30)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesComplex syntax proficiency is an understudied but integral aspect of preschool grammatical development. Children classified as late talkers at two years of age lag behind their same-aged peers with typical language in the ...
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(2021-08-16)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Center-embedded, object-gapped relative clause sentence comprehension is challenging for children as well as adults. Mismatching lexical and grammatical features of subject noun phrases (NP) across the main clause ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesRemote microphone (RM) systems are assistive listening devices that improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to the user, facilitating children’s speech perception in noisy environments. As a result, these devices are widely ...
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Defining the Relationship Between Channel Interaction and Outcomes in Adult Cochlear Implant Users (2024-03-25)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Cochlear implant (CI) recipients demonstrate deficits in performance on spectral-dependent tasks, such as speech understanding in noise and music perception. Channel interaction, or the stimulation overlap between ...
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(2021-01-05)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesThe primary goal of this project was to investigate the relationship between daily cochlear implant (CI) use and speech recognition outcomes in postlingually deafened, adult CI recipients. This goal was addressed using ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit deficits in performance on auditory-based tasks, especially in the presence of background noise, as compared to neurotypical peers. Speech perception-in-noise ...
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(2024-04-29)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesTalkers with Parkinson’s disease (PD) exhibit a wide variety of perceptual speech patterns. Although heterogeneity of dysarthria manifestation across talkers with PD has long been acknowledged, they are still poorly ...
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(2020-08-20)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesTelepractice holds substantial promise in facilitating equitable access and cost-effective services for all school-age children, regardless of geographic locations, physical conditions, or socioeconomic status. The ...
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(2021-07-16)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesListening difficulty (LiD) is defined as developmental difficulty in listening despite the presence of normal hearing; this difficulty is often exacerbated in noisy environments. Listening is a critical skill for everyone, ...
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Motor and Cognitive Influences on Speech Production in Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease (2022-07-18)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Motor speech and cognitive dysfunction are both common clinical symptoms in the degenerative diseases of Huntington’s disease (HD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Though there is variability in speaking rate in both ...
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(2020-08-19)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesDifferences in sensory functioning — and audiovisual multisensory integration in particular — are commonly observed in individuals with autism. Difficulty integrating auditory and visual speech signals, in particular the ...
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(2021-07-16)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesAphasia is an acquired disorder of communication that results from injury to regions of the brain that support language. While much has been learned about the neural bases of language and aphasia in the past two hundred ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesNaturalistic language production is integral to daily communication and ubiquitously impaired in aphasia, an acquired language disorder caused by focal brain damage typically due to stroke. Despite its importance, naturalistic ...
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(2022-08-11)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesWe investigated functional reorganization for language processing in post-stroke aphasia, while making a concerted effort to ameliorate previously identified methodological challenges and implementing a novel method to ...
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(2020-03-26)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesSuccessful communication depends on both what is said and how something is said. This aspect of language is collectively referred to as prosody and is ubiquitous in human communication. Individuals with ASD demonstrate ...
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(2022-03-25)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesCognitive-communication impairment is among the most common and costly consequences of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Word learning is a central but largely unexamined aspect of cognitive communication that ...
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(2022-06-14)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesA listener’s ability to localize sound primarily relies on the binaural cues available across frequency and time. Observer weighting methods have established the relative influence (or perceptual weighting) of these cues ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesLanguage is multimodal, containing speech and gesture. Listeners must bind co-occurring information from verbal and visual modalities to form an integrated representation of the speaker’s message. Across two experiments, ...