Hearing deficit and its effect on speech perception∗

∗ A paper presented at the National Conference/Workshop on the Language Performance of Exceptional Children, Fred and Eleanor Schonell Educational Research Centre, University of Queensland, May 1975.

ABSTRACT

A moderately deaf child may have enough hearing to convince his intelligent, concerned and observant parents that he is not deaf, but may yet have a severe speech and language defect. An explanation of the causal relationship between the deafness and the language defect is offered, in terms of the child's failure to acquire the language‐specific rules for categorisation of the sounds of speech.

∗ A paper presented at the National Conference/Workshop on the Language Performance of Exceptional Children, Fred and Eleanor Schonell Educational Research Centre, University of Queensland, May 1975.

Notes

∗ A paper presented at the National Conference/Workshop on the Language Performance of Exceptional Children, Fred and Eleanor Schonell Educational Research Centre, University of Queensland, May 1975.