Original Research

Speech production changes wih the use of a multichannel cochlear implant in postlingually hearing impaired adult

Sandy Cummings, Emily Groenewald, René Hugo, Lida Müller, Mike van der Linde
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Vol 41, No 1 | a251 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v41i1.251 | © 2019 Sandy Cummings, Emily Groenewald, René Hugo, Lida Müller, Mike van der Linde | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 24 October 2016 | Published: 31 December 1994

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Sandy Cummings, Department of Communication Pathology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Emily Groenewald, Department of Communication Pathology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
René Hugo, Department of Communication Pathology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Lida Müller, Department of Pathology and Audiology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mike van der Linde, Department of Information Technology, Division of Academic Computing, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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Abstract

Profoundly deaf cochlear implant users provide an interesting population in which to assess the role of distorted auditory feedback in speech, since their electrically stimulated hearing is significantly different from normal hearing. The aim of the study was to evaluate, by means of spectrographic and listener analyses, the speech production changes in a postlingually deafened adult with the use of a multichannel cochlear implant over time, compared to that of hearing aids as well as no-amplification. The results indicated significant improvements in the use of suprasegmental speech features as well in the production of specific segmental features of speech.

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