Publications by authors named "Madhu Sundarrajan"
Conclusions about the efficacy of tele-therapy for parent-mediated intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are limited, due to the shortage of direct comparisons between tele-therapy and traditional face-to-face therapy. In this study, we implemented a parent training program, which targeted on language facilitating intervention strategies. Fifteen parents of children with ASD participated in person, and 15 participated via online video conferencing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective of this study was to investigate the development of consonant inventory and accuracy in pediatric cochlear implant (CI) recipients and compare their performance to typical hearing (TH) children.
Methods: One hundred and twenty nine children with CIs, implanted between 6-38 months of age, and 30 age-matched children with TH participated in this study. Spontaneous speech samples were collected at 3.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess speech intelligibility changes in 110 adolescents with cochlear implants, comparing their performance from elementary school to high school while also investigating factors that affect their speech.
- Significant improvements were observed, with speech intelligibility and consonant accuracy increasing by about 22% over the years, although it worsened by 20% in noisy environments.
- Factors like duration of deafness, IQ, gender, family background, and earlier performance measures explained a large part (65.8%) of the variability in speech intelligibility at both time points, suggesting that these could be crucial in understanding speech outcomes.
Objective: To assess overall speech intelligibility in adolescent cochlear implant speakers during quiet and multispeaker babble conditions.
Study Design: A cross-sectional assessment of intelligibility incorporating group (auditory-oral versus total communication speakers), sentence context (high versus low contexts), and background conditions (quiet versus multispeaker babble).
Setting: A camp designed to assess adolescents over a concentrated period.