OBJECTIVES: This study investigates the relationship between speech perception and production, focusing on consonant error patterns in children using cochlear implants (CIs), children with normal hearing (NH), and NH children listening to vocoder simulations (NHV)....
Findings can inform speech-language therapy goals for pediatric cochlear implant users by identifying which consonant perception and production error patterns are device-driven versus developmentally typical.
Understanding whether consonant errors in pediatric CI users mirror vocoder simulations or diverge from them helps disentangle device limitations from broader developmental speech-language factors.
- 01Three groups compared: normal-hearing children, pediatric CI users, and vocoder-simulation listeners.
- 02Consonant perception and production error patterns were mapped across all groups.
- 03CI users showed distinct error profiles not fully explained by vocoder simulation alone.
- 04Published in Ear and Hearing.
- 05Results may guide targeted speech therapy and CI programming decisions.
Consonant perception and production error patterns differ between pediatric cochlear implant users and normal-hearing children.
studysupportedVocoder simulations partially but not fully replicate the perceptual experience of pediatric cochlear implant users.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42301218
- DOI
- 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001848.
- Journal
- Ear and Hearing
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Population
- Normal-hearing children, pediatric cochlear implant users, and children listening to vocoder simulations
- Intervention
- Comparison of consonant perception and production in cochlear implant users and vocoder simulation listeners
- Comparator
- Normal-hearing children
Primary outcomes
Consonant perception error patterns; Consonant production error patterns