보청기 및 인공와우 착용아의 어음변별력과 어음명료도의 상관관계

The Correlation between Speech Discriminations and Speech Intelligibilities of Children with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants

&nbsp;&nbsp;The purpose of this study is to know the correlation and characteristics between the speech discrimination and speech intelligibility of 6 sounds(/a/, /u/, /i/, /m/, /∫/, /s/) and 25 words with primary or secondary stressed syllable between the hearing impaired children with hearing aids and cochlear implants. There are 10 children with hearing aids and 10 children with cochlear implants who, with hearing impaired hearing aids before the acquirement of language and without any other issues, participated.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The results of this study are as followings:<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;First, it indicates that an analogy was not found between speech discrimination and speech intelligibility for 6 sounds and 25 words with primary or secondary stressed syllable for the children with hearing aids. Although there was no error on /a/sound, but /s/sound had many errors in speech discrimination and speech intelligibility for the children with hearing aids. It was found that the level of words which had faults corresponded in order to plosives, affricate, fricative, nasals, with speech discrimination, and affricate, fricative, plosives, vowels, nasals, with speech intelligibility.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Second, there were no differences between speech discrimination and speech intelligibility for 6 sounds for children with coacher implants. However there was a similar correlation for 25 words with primary or secondary stressed syllable in them. It was shown that they had errors in speech discrimination and speech intelligibility for the /s/sound, on the wards level of speech discrimination in order to plosives, affricate, nasals, fricative, and on the speech intelligibility affricate, fricative, plosives, vowels.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Third, there were no differences in the 6 sounds for the two groups. However, it indicated that there were significant differences statistically in speech discrimination for 25 words with primary or secondary stressed syllable at the level t= 2.160, p= .045 p&lt;.05. It indicated that there were significant differences, statistically in the speech intelligibility for 25 words with primary or secondary stressed syllable at the level t= 4.122, p= .001 p&lt;.05.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;As the result of the study is to prove similar characteristics in the speech discrimination and speech intelligibility for two groups and also show that children with cochlear implants have correlations in speech discrimination and speech intelligibility for 25 words with primary or secondary stressed syllable. It is showed that children with cochlear implants have higher grades over all, and there are significant differences in speech intelligibility and speech discrimination for 25 words with primary or secondary stressed syllable in the two groups.