Voice of hearing impaired children and adolescents and hearing peers: influence of speech auditory perception on vocal production
Voz de crianças e adolescentes deficientes auditivos e pares ouvintes: influência da percepção auditiva da fala na produção vocal
Eliane Maria Carrit Delgado-Pinheiro; Jéssica Caroline Bonbonati; Flávia Rodrigues dos Santos; Eliana Maria Gradim Fabron
Abstract
Purpose: To compare the acoustic and perceptual-auditory results of the hearing impaired children and adolescents with hearing pairs and to correlate these results with parents’ reports regarding speech auditory perception. Method: The participants were divided into two groups: Group I, 20 hearing-impaired children and adolescents and Group II, 20 children and adolescents with normal hearing. Acoustic analysis of the vowel /a/ and perceptual-auditory assessment of the vowel /a/ and speech were performed. The speech auditory perception of the GI was assessed using the Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale and the Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale with adaptation for adolescent participants. The acoustic and perceptual-auditory voice results of the GI and GII were compared and these results were correlated with the performance in the auditory perception of the GI group. Results: The groups I and II presented similar results, differing statistically in the long-term frequency variation (vF0 ) and the long-term amplitude variation (vAm) parameters of the vowel /a/ and speech resonance parameter. It was found a negative correlation between auditory perception performance with jitter, vF0 and general degree of vowel /a/. Conclusion: The vocal quality in GI was similar to their hearing peers in almost all the vocal parameters that were analyzed. The auditory perception influenced jitter, vF0 and general degree of voice parameters, in which hearing-impaired children and adolescents who presented higher scores for auditory perception were also able to keep a more controlled vocal emission.
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Objetivo: Comparar os resultados acústicos e perceptivo-auditivos da voz de crianças e adolescentes deficientes auditivos com pares ouvintes e correlacionar estes resultados com o relato dos pais em relação à percepção auditiva da fala. Método: Os participantes foram divididos em dois grupos: grupo I, 20 crianças e adolescentes deficientes auditivos, e grupo II, 20 crianças e adolescentes ouvintes. Foi realizada análise acústica da vogal /a/ e avaliação perceptivo-auditiva da vogal /a/ e da fala. A percepção auditiva do GI foi avaliada utilizando a Escala de Integração Auditiva Significativa para Crianças Pequenas e a Escala de Integração Auditiva Significativa, com adaptação para participantes adolescentes. Os resultados acústicos e perceptivo-auditivos da voz de GI e GII foram comparados e, para o GI, estes resultados foram correlacionados com o desempenho na percepção auditiva. Resultados: Os grupos I e II apresentaram resultados similares, diferenciando-se estatisticamente nos parâmetros variação da frequência fundamental (vF0 ) e variação da amplitude (vAm) da vogal /a/ e ressonância da fala. Houve correlação negativa entre o desempenho na percepção auditiva com os parâmetros de jitter, vF0 e grau geral da vogal /a/. Conclusão: A qualidade vocal do GI foi semelhante em praticamente todos os parâmetros vocais analisados a dos seus pares ouvintes (G2). A percepção auditiva influenciou os parâmetros jitter, vF0 e grau geral do impacto da voz, em que crianças e adolescentes deficientes auditivos que apresentaram maiores escores para a percepção auditiva também foram capazes de manter a emissão vocal mais equilibrada.
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Submitted date:
10/09/2018
Accepted date:
27/08/2019
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