Application of a Vibrotactile Aid in Improvement of Speech Production in Deaf Children
Description:
The SRA-10 is a tactile instrument which provides hearing impaired subjects with acoustic transforms that can be easily discriminated on the skin. Whether or not the SRA-10 is an effective means of training speech-language skills in profoundly hearing impaired subjects was the focus of this investigation. Two profoundly hearing impaired subjects were trained on phonetic reception/production tasks and on discrimination of multisyllabic words. Each subject served as his own control, wearing the S…
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Date:
December 1981
Creator:
Hunt, Sherrie L. (Sherrie Lynn)