How is hearing loss diagnosed?
• The evaluation process that the child will receive includes:
• If the child fails a hearing screening, then the child is referred to an audiologist for further testing. Upon completion of going to the audiologist, the child will return to the Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to receive therapy.
• A speech assessment will be collected to evaluate intelligibility by recording a speech sample. Segmental and suprasegmental production testing are methods of speech intelligibility.
What are Segmental and Suprasegmental production errors?
• Segmental errors with significant hearing loss
• Suprasegmental errors with significant hearing loss
• The evaluation process that the child will receive includes:
- A language sample
- An oral exam
- A hearing screening
- Formal testing, such as the Phonemic Awareness Assessment
• If the child fails a hearing screening, then the child is referred to an audiologist for further testing. Upon completion of going to the audiologist, the child will return to the Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to receive therapy.
• A speech assessment will be collected to evaluate intelligibility by recording a speech sample. Segmental and suprasegmental production testing are methods of speech intelligibility.
What are Segmental and Suprasegmental production errors?
• Segmental errors with significant hearing loss
- Vowels are nasalized and neutralized, sounds are made Into diphthongs, sounds are substituted, and have prolongation
- Consonants are substituted, omitted, and distorted. There’s voiced/voiceless confusion and visible consonants are produced better (e.g., /f/, /v/, /p/, /b/, /m/).
• Suprasegmental errors with significant hearing loss
- Errors in stress, rate, coarticulation, and breath.
- Voice quality pitch goes high or monotone with frequent pauses and coarticulation of phonemes in isolation.
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