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Cued Speech Proficiency improves Segment and Cluster Accuracy in French-speaking Children with Cochlear Implants

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Objective: This paper aims to investigate to what extent Cued Speech proficiency may improve speech production in French-speaking children with cochlear implants. Although cochlear implants facilitate speech comprehension in children with profound hearing loss, the auditory information provided remains degraded and phonological processing can remain impaired. In face-to-face interaction, Cued Speech manual gestures can be used to complement auditory and visual speech information, with established benefits for children with hearing impairment. A Cued Speech education might also have longer-term impacts on the speech processing abilities of these children. It can thus be expected that production accuracy will also benefit from Cued Speech exposure.Design: Thirty-two children with cochlear implants (20 with low Cued Speech proficiency vs 12 with high Cued Speech proficiency) and 81 children with typical hearing aged from 60 to 135 months took part in this study. Speech production was assessed using the picture-naming task from the EULALIES battery, which is designed to test the accuracy of spontaneous (non- imitative) phoneme production in isolated word context.Results: The results reveal first, that early implantation facilitates the development of phonological skills, but also that adequate exposure to Cued Speech compensates for late implantation. A positive effect of Cued Speech proficiency was indeed observed on consonant, consonant cluster and vowel production in children with cochlear implants.Conclusion: This study highlights long-term effects of Cued Speech education on speech production. This suggests that providing the child with a richer multimodal input might result in better specified phonological representations.
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hal-04341864 , version 1 (13-12-2023)

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Laura Machart, Lucie Van Bogaert, Anne Vilain, Hélène Loevenbruck, Silvain Gerber. Cued Speech Proficiency improves Segment and Cluster Accuracy in French-speaking Children with Cochlear Implants. 2023. ⟨hal-04341864⟩
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