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The Impact of Speech Recognition Testing on State Anxiety in Young, Middle-Age, and Older Adults
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Roup, Christina M.; Green, Donna E.; DeBacker, J. Riley – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study assessed state anxiety as a function of speech recognition testing using three clinical measures of speech in noise and one clinical measure of dichotic speech recognition. Method: Thirty young adults, 30 middle-age adults, and 25 older adults participated. State anxiety was measured pre-and post-speech recognition testing…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Word Recognition, Testing, Anxiety
An Exploration of Factors Affecting Performance of Adults with Aphasia on a Functional Communication Task
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Griffith, Luke Marcus – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In traditional aphasia testing and treatment, clinicians administer a standardized aphasia test that measures language impairment, followed by a linguistic approach to treatment. Many clinicians have argued the need for emphasis on functional communication, and third party payers desire functional information to determine patient progress. This…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Adults, Communication Skills, Allied Health Personnel
Alternative Organization of Speech Perception Deficits in Children
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Gosy, Maria – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
Children's first-language perception base takes shape gradually from birth onwards. Empirical research has confirmed that children may continue to fall short of age-based expectations in their speech perception. The purpose of this study was to assess the contribution of various perception processes in both reading and learning disabled children.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Scientific Research, Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition
Factors Related to the Speech-Hearing of Children of Below Normal Intelligence. Final Report.
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Siegenthaler, Bruce M. – 1970
Tests were administered to 209 educable mentally handicapped children (mean age 10.8, mean IQ 77) to determine factors related to speech hearing. Results indicated that mental age, intelligence quotient, physiological age, institutionalization, and organic bases for retardation were not significantly related either to speech reception threshold or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Etiology
Children's Discrimination of Rhyme
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Knafle, June D. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Discrimination Learning
Visual and Auditory Learning Processes in Normal Children and Children with Specific Learning Disabilities. Final Report.
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McGrady, Harold J.; Olson, Don A. – 1967
To describe and compare the psychosensory functioning of normal children and children with specific learning disabilities, 62 learning disabled and 68 normal children were studied. Each child was given a battery of thirteen subtests on an automated psychosensory system representing various combinations of auditory and visual intra- and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Exceptional Child Research
TRAINING METHODS FOR OLDER WORKERS. EMPLOYMENT OF OLDER WORKERS, 2.
BELBIN, R.M. – 1965
A SURVEY WAS PRESENTED OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE ON AGE CHANGES IN HUMAN CAPACITIES, ESPECIALLY IN LEARNING ABILITY AND ADAPTABILITY, AND DESCRIBED VARIOUS METHODS USED TO TRAIN WORKERS OVER 40. THE ROLE OF MEMORY, MOTIVATION, RIGIDITY, AND INTELLIGENCE IN DETERMINING THE LEARNING EFFICIENCY OF MATURE ADULTS WAS ASSESSED, ALSO DIFFICULTIES CAUSED BY…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age, Age Differences, Anxiety