Cued Speech Proficiency improves Segment and Cluster Accuracy in French-speaking Children with Cochlear Implants

• Main Authors: Machart, Laura, Van Bogaert, Lucie, Vilain, Anne, Loevenbruck, Hélène, Gerber, Silvain
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), GIPSA - Perception, Contrôle, Multimodalité et Dynamiques de la parole (GIPSA-PCMD), GIPSA Pôle Parole et Cognition (GIPSA-PPC), Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), ANR-17-CE28-0006,HearCog,Restauration des fonctions auditives et cognitives chez l'enfant sourd implanté cochléaire(2017), ANR-19-CE28-0016,EULALIES,Un nouvel outil d'évaluation des Troubles du Développement des Sons de Parole chez les enfants francophones(2019)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: French Cued Speech; Cochlear Implants; Speech Production; Phonological Representations; [SCCO]Cognitive science; [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04341864; https://hal.science/hal-04341864/document; https://hal.science/hal-04341864/file/Machart_etal_PictureNaming_preprint.pdf; https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/6xktf

Also written with the EULALIES Consortium. Members of the EULALIES consortium include, in alphabetical order, Estelle Gillet-Perret (CRTLA,Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, France), Andrea A. N. MacLeod (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Geneviève Meloni (Université Grenoble Alpes, France and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada), Clarisse Puissant (Université Grenoble Alpes, France), and Yvan Rose (Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada) Objective: This paper aims to investigate to what extent Cued Speech proficiency may improve speech production in French-speaking children with cochlear implants. Although cochlear implants facilitate speech comprehension in children with profound hearing loss, the auditory information provided remains degraded and phonological processing can remain impaired. In face-to-face interaction, Cued Speech manual gestures can be used to complement auditory and visual speech information, with established benefits for children with hearing impairment. A Cued Speech education might also have longer-term impacts on the speech processing abilities of these children. It can thus be expected that production accuracy will also benefit from Cued Speech exposure.Design: Thirty-two children with cochlear implants (20 with low Cued Speech proficiency vs 12 with high Cued Speech proficiency) and 81 children with typical hearing aged from 60 to 135 months took part in this study. Speech production was assessed using the picture-naming task from the EULALIES battery, which is designed to test the accuracy of spontaneous (non- imitative) phoneme production in isolated word context.Results: The results reveal first, that early implantation facilitates the development of phonological skills, but also that adequate exposure to Cued Speech compensates for late implantation. A positive effect of Cued Speech proficiency was indeed observed on consonant, consonant cluster and vowel production in children with cochlear implants.Conclusion: This study highlights long-term ...