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Infant-directed speech enhances attention to speech in deaf infants with cochlear implants

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextOnline resources: In: Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research Vol. 60 p. 3321-3333 (November 2017)Abstract: Both theoretical models of infant language acquisition and empirical studies posit important roles for attention to speech in early language development. However, deaf infants with cochlear implants (CIs) show reduced attention to speech as compared with their peers with normal hearing (NH; Horn, Davis, Pisoni, & Miyamoto, 2005; Houston, Pisoni, Kirk, Ying, & Miyamoto, 2003), which may affect their acquisition of spoken language. The main purpose of this study was to determine (a) whether infantdirected speech (IDS) enhances attention to speech in infants with CIs, as compared with adult-directed speech (ADS), and (b) whether the degree to which infants with CIs pay attention to IDS is associated with later language outcomes.
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Both theoretical models of infant language
acquisition and empirical studies posit important roles
for attention to speech in early language development.
However, deaf infants with cochlear implants (CIs) show
reduced attention to speech as compared with their peers
with normal hearing (NH; Horn, Davis, Pisoni, & Miyamoto,
2005; Houston, Pisoni, Kirk, Ying, & Miyamoto, 2003), which
may affect their acquisition of spoken language. The main
purpose of this study was to determine (a) whether infantdirected
speech (IDS) enhances attention to speech in infants
with CIs, as compared with adult-directed speech (ADS), and
(b) whether the degree to which infants with CIs pay
attention to IDS is associated with later language outcomes.

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