Week 2 RFL - Hearing Loss

Question 1

What % of children with hearing loss are born into speaking families?

Answer 1

90%

Question 2

What did Ingvalson et al (2023) find about vocabulary sizes in children?

Answer 2

Found that the standard scores (vocabulary test) of the hearing loss group was lower than the other group with normal hearing.

Question 3

What is habituation?

Answer 3

Over time as a novel item is repeatedly shown to child then it will lead to them getting bored of the item, each time show the time looking at the item goes down. 1st tine, 30 sec, 2nd time, 15 seconds etc.

Question 4

What is the McGurk effect?

Answer 4

The brain can use more than one sense at a time to help complete a task, within word learning the brain can use both visual and auditory cues to help deduct what a word is.

Question 5

What did Schorr et al (2005) find out about the McGurk

Answer 5

Found that children with cochlear implant relied more on visual cues when attempting to understand a word.

Question 6

What is a cochlear?

Answer 6

A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception. With the help of therapy, cochlear implants may allow for improved speech understanding in both quiet and noisy environments.

Question 7

What did Perry et al (2021) find.

Answer 7

The more vocabulary a child has the greater chance they will show a shape bias, perceptual heuristic.