and Aims: Accuracy in speech perception in bilingual children is influenced by two phonological systems. This study compares phonological development in bilingual Urdu-English (UE) children with CIs with their hearing-age-matched peers with normal hearing (NH), by investigating whether bilingualism or any spectral limitations of CI impact perception of UE phonemes....
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists working with bilingual Urdu-English cochlear implant children should pay particular attention to place-of-articulation confusions, which are typically the hardest sound features to perceive through an implant.
This study provides rare bilingual-specific speech perception data that can inform more culturally and linguistically appropriate rehabilitation targets for Urdu-English cochlear implant children.
- 01Compares speech perception accuracy between normal-hearing and CI-using bilingual Urdu-English children.
- 02Analyses consonant confusions across place, manner, and voicing dimensions in both languages.
- 03CI children likely show greater difficulty with place-of-articulation distinctions.
- 04Findings are relevant to under-researched non-English CI populations.
- 05Published in Audiology Research (MDPI open-access journal).
Bilingual Urdu-English children with cochlear implants show different phonological error patterns compared to normal-hearing peers.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42345624
- DOI
- 10.3390/audiolres16030084.
- Journal
- Audiology Research
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 3
- Population
- Bilingual Urdu-English children with normal hearing and cochlear implants
- Intervention
- Speech perception testing across place, manner, and voicing features in Urdu and English
- Comparator
- Normal-hearing bilingual children
Primary outcomes
Phonological error patterns by feature type (place, manner, voicing); Speech perception accuracy in Urdu vs. English; Comparison of CI users vs. normal-hearing peers