Estimating Effects of Hearing Loss on Speech Perception & Auditory Skill Development
Dr. Mona Oster with Michelle Andros
Hearing loss- no doubt-impacts the way a child will perceive speech sounds. Aspects of speech such as intensity, and frequency will be affected by hearing loss. Severity and type of hearing loss impacts how a child perceives speech but determining how much impact, and exactly what areas of speech are affected, will need to be determined before efforts to provide intervention can be developed. Join Dr. Mona Oster as she talks about ways to determine HOW and to WHAT EXTENT, hearing loss has impacted a child’s speech perception and auditory skill development. Then she discusses ways that professionals can help a child access missed speech sounds. Dr. Oster will answer questions about how amplification impacts access to speech perception.
