THE EFFECT OF A SYNTHETIC ONLY VERSUS SYNTHETIC PLUS ANALYTIC APPROACH TO AUDITORY TRAINING WITH ADVENTITIOUSLY HEARING-IMPAIRED ADULTS.
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Title
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THE EFFECT OF A SYNTHETIC ONLY VERSUS SYNTHETIC PLUS ANALYTIC APPROACH TO AUDITORY TRAINING WITH ADVENTITIOUSLY HEARING-IMPAIRED ADULTS.
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Identifier
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AAI8515655
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identifier
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8515655
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Creator
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RUBINSTEIN, ADRIENNE.
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Contributor
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Arthur Boothroyd
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Date
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1985
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Health Sciences, Audiology
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Abstract
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Twenty hearing aid owners, aged 56 to 79, with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing impairments, were given structured auditory training. Ten of the subjects spent all of the time on global tasks (i.e. activities involving sentence perception and perceptual strategy) while the other ten spent half of the time on analytic tasks (i.e. activities involving consonant recognition).;Three tests of speech recognition were given to measure the effects of training: The CUNY Nonsense Syllable Test (NST), the low predictability items of the Revised Speech Perception in Noise (RSPIN) test, and the high predictability items of the RSPIN test. The tests were administered at a signal to noise ratio giving a score of approximately 50%, as determined by an adaptive procedure at the beginning of the study. Subjects were tested on four occasions: (a) at the beginning of the study, (b) after four weeks of "no treatment", (c) after a further four weeks of auditory training, and (d) after a final four weeks of "no treatment".;The results showed: (a) that performance improved only during the treatment period, (b) that improvement was maintained during the four weeks following training, and (c) that the improvement occurred only in the high predictability items. The effect of training method was not significant, either as a main effect or in interaction with other factors. The results indicate that the two methods were equally successful in effecting change. Since the improvements were seen only in the materials with high redundancy, the findings suggest that effective listening while taking advantage of contextual cues was the most important feature of the program.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Speech & Hearing
