Five groups of subjects with 15 adult male veterans in each group who had hearing sensitivity near normal limits were presented sound stimuli through headphones at levels of equal intensity and duration, and asked to name ...

Audiologic assessments for school-age Inuit children were conducted during the course of the school year to determine the fluctuation of hearing thresholds and prevalence of otitis media (OM) over three seasons, and to ...

The current study integrates situated theories of communication and communication disorders approaches to examine the impact of stuttering on the functional communication system managing stuttering. Adults who self-identified ...

A single-subject multiple baseline design across target sets examined the effectiveness of a hybrid treatment approach, incorporating both linguistic and motor learning strategies, to facilitate multisyllabic productions ...

Frequency-discrimination data were obtained for 12 normal-hearing and six hearing-impaired subjects with a 3-interval, 2-cued, yes/no task for a variety of signals. These signals included pure tones, fixed-bandwidth (400 ...

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) is an approach that involves scanning markers across complete sets of DNA, or genomes, of many people to indentify genetic variations associated with a particular disease. A GWAS uses ...

Auditory-discrimination training is a major component of speech-therapy programs designed to improve speech-articulation skills. Training in the identification and discrimination of correct and incor- rect speech-sound ...

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of a specific intervention program on production and feature awareness, as well as on general phonological awareness skills, in four children with moderate-to-severe ...