Papers by Tonya Bergeson-dana
The Volta review
The present study investigated the development of audiovisual speech perception skills in childre... more The present study investigated the development of audiovisual speech perception skills in children who are prelingually deaf and received cochlear implants. We analyzed results from the Pediatric Speech Intelligibility (Jerger, Lewis, Hawkins, & Jerger, 1980) test of audiovisual spoken word and sentence recognition skills obtained from a large group of young children with cochlear implants enrolled in a longitudinal study, from pre-implantation to 3 years post-implantation. The results revealed better performance under the audiovisual presentation condition compared with auditory-alone and visual-alone conditions. Performance in all three conditions improved over time following implantation. The results also revealed differential effects of early sensory and linguistic experience. Children from oral communication (OC) education backgrounds performed better overall than children from total communication (TC backgrounds. Finally, children in the early-implanted group performed better ...
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Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2010
To learn how nasal batten grafts affect patients' assessm... more To learn how nasal batten grafts affect patients' assessment of their nasal airway patency and to determine the extent to which patients believe batten grafts altered their appearance. A prospective survey study of 18 patients in a tertiary veterans hospital who had nasal airway obstruction (NAO) due to nasal valve collapse was completed. Patients had placement of bilateral polyethylene batten grafts during a 36-month study period. The Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation (NOSE) validated survey was used to measure a patient's subjective postoperative change in nasal airway obstruction. In addition, the patients were asked to rate the extent their appearance had changed. All patients presented with complaints of NAO due to nasal valve collapse either in isolation or in combination with another anatomical source of obstruction. The nasal valve collapse was identified by clinical examination. All patients had preoperative photographs. Most patients had a trial with an intranasal stent before opting for surgical implantation of the batten grafts. The results of the NOSE survey demonstrate significant improvement in nasal obstruction. Patients also reported only a minimal change in appearance. There was 1 patient with implant extrusions and only a few implants were removed. Nasal airway obstruction due to nasal valve collapse can be effectively treated with polyethylene batten grafts. The implants are well tolerated, and patients report a significant improvement in NAO. There is little risk of implant extrusion, exposure, or intolerance. In addition, patients did not note a significant change to their appearance.
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Music Perception, 2006
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Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 2000
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
Recent studies have demonstrated that mothers exaggerate phonetic properties of infant‐directed (... more Recent studies have demonstrated that mothers exaggerate phonetic properties of infant‐directed (ID) speech. However, these studies focused on a single acoustic dimension, ie, frequency, whereas speech sounds are composed of multiple acoustic cues. Moreover, little is known how mothers adjust phonetic properties of speech to children with hearing loss. This study examined the mothers' production of frequency and duration cues to the American English tense∕ lax vowel contrast in speech to profoundly deaf (N= 12) and ...
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008
Previous research has indicated that when speaking to normal‐hearing children, maternal caregiver... more Previous research has indicated that when speaking to normal‐hearing children, maternal caregivers' speech is characterized by a vowel space which is expanded relative to that produced when speaking to other adults. The present study investigated the characteristics of the vowel spaces produced by mothers interacting with hearing‐impaired children who had recently received a cochlear implant (CI), relative to those produced when interacting with another adult. Mothers were recorded interacting with their hearing‐impaired children ...
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Ear and Hearing, 2005
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Acta Oto-laryngologica, 2008
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Restorative neurology and neuroscience, 2010
Cochlear implantation has recently become available as an intervention strategy for young childre... more Cochlear implantation has recently become available as an intervention strategy for young children with profound hearing impairment. In fact, infants as young as 6 months are now receiving cochlear implants (CIs), and even younger infants are being fitted with hearing aids (HAs). Because early audiovisual experience may be important for normal development of speech perception, it is important to investigate the effects of a period of auditory deprivation and amplification type on multimodal perceptual processes of infants and children. The purpose of this study was to investigate audiovisual perception skills in normal-hearing (NH) infants and children and deaf infants and children with CIs and HAs of similar chronological ages. We used an Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm to present the same woman's face articulating two words ("judge" and "back") in temporal synchrony on two sides of a TV monitor, along with an auditory presentation of one of the wor...
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