caa a22 4500 386334978 CHVBK 20180307111730.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0142716400008651 doi S0142716400008651 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0142716400008651 Development of speech-like vocalizations in a child with congenital absence of cochleas: The case of total deafness [Elektronische Daten] In order to assess the effect of total deafness on vocalization development, tape recorded utterances of a 3-year-old child who was born without cochleas were examined. In the beginning of the study, the subject's speech consisted almost exclusively of small numbers of sounds characteristic of early infancy. Across the study, the subject participated in extensive vocal stimulation activities. He also initially received intermittent exposure to tactile speech information via a 16-channel vocoder and, subsequently, a 2-channel tactile aid. Following introduction of the 2-channel aid, the subject made rapid improvement in the quality of his vocalizations, which consisted increasingly of speech-like utterances, including well-formed or canonical syllables. These results suggest that, although hearing impairment slows the onset of canonical babbling, even total deafness does not preclude its eventual appearance. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Lynch Michael P. University of Miami Oller D. Kimbrough University of Miami Steffens Michele University of Miami Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/3(1989-09), 315-333 0142-7164 10:3<315 1989 10 APS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008651 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008651 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lynch Michael P. University of Miami NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Oller D. Kimbrough University of Miami NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Steffens Michele University of Miami NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/3(1989-09), 315-333 0142-7164 10:3<315 1989 10 APS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge