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PROGRAM SESSIONSTH 1:00PM-3:00PM, Seminar 2 HR, CC/350-351 Development of Auditory Behavior: Hearing Science & Clinical Applications Lynne Werner, U of Washington, Seattle, WA; Patricia G. Stelmachowicz, Boys Town National Research Hosp, Omaha, NE This session was developed by the Convention Program Committee. Hearing and auditory behavior change throughout infancy, childhood and even adolescence. An important challenge for researchers and clinicians is to understand how the quality of auditory experiences in infancy and childhood influences the development of perceptual strategies. This maturation may be compromised for children with hearing loss during early life. Research Issues Across the Discipline (Audiology) 0133 Poster Board 364 TH 8:00AM-9:30AM, Poster, CC/Hall G The NIH Toolbox & the Assessment of Auditory Function Steven Zecker, Northwestern U, Evanston, IL TH 8:15AM-8:30AM, Technical, CC/349 AutoNRT Threshold Changes Over Time & Implications for CI Mapping Lynn Spivak, LIJ Med Ctr, New Hyde Park, NY; Stella Gershkovich, LIJ Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY; Charles Auerbach, LIJ Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NK AutoNRT thresholds were obtained intra-operatively and at one and three months post-surgery from 78 subjects implanted with the Freedom device. Changes in NRT threshold over time were examined. There were differences among electrodes in rate of change over time with apical electrodes demonstrating the least amount of change. Results of this study suggest that using intraoperative measurements on electrodes closer to the apical end may provide most accurate measurement of post-operative scores. Thursday, november 19, 2009 audioLogY 0134 Poster Board 365 TH 10:00AM-11:30AM, Poster, CC/Hall G Beyond Awareness: Encouraging Hearing Conservation Practices for College Students Mary Jane Sullivan, University of NH, Durham, NH; Jeanne O'Sullivan, University of NH, Durham, NH; Bridget Laffin, University of NH, Durham, NH TH 3:30PM-5:30PM, Seminar 2 HR, CC/350-351 Brain Plasticity in Persons With Hearing Loss: Clinical Implications Anu Sharma, U of Colorado - Boulder, Boulder, CO This session was developed by the Convention Program Committee. We are investigating the deterioration, development, plasticity, and reorganization of the human central auditory pathways in normal hearing persons and in persons with hearing loss. Our measures of central auditory maturation include cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEP), high density electroencephalography (EEG), MEG, fMRI, and behavioral measures. We will discuss results using these measures in humans and in animal models of deafness and their clinical implications for patient assessment, intervention, and habilitation. Supported by NIH. 0135 Poster Board 366 TH 1:00PM-2:30PM, Poster, CC/Hall G The Use of Prosody for Word Recognition in Children Rachel Lamb, St. Anthony Hosp, Oklahoma City, OK; Frank Boutsen, U of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK TH 8:30AM-8:45AM, Technical, CC/349 Measures of Executive Function in Children With Hearing Loss Lea Greiner, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Elizabeth Walker, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Derek Stiles, U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA The present study explores how children with cochlear implants (CIs), children who are hard of hearing, and children with normal hearing perform on behavioral and parent-report executive function measures. Preliminary results suggested slightly elevated scores on behavioral and parent-report measures of executive function in children with CIs. Results will be discussed in relation to using measures of executive function to account for some of the variability in the outcomes of children with CIs. Treatment of Hearing Loss and (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders in Children: (Re)habilitation and Educational Issues (Audiology) 0136 TH 2:30PM-4:30PM, Seminar 2 HR, CC/349 Does Early Identification of Hearing Loss Really Make a Difference? Linda Luduena, Sunshine Cottage Sch for Deaf Children, San Antonio, TX; Marcia Foster, Sunshine Cottage Sch for Deaf Children, San Antonio, TX; Jessie Ritter, Sunshine Cottage Sch for Deaf Children, San Antonio, TX; Monica Dorman, Sunshine Cottage Sch for Deaf Children, San Antonio, TX This presentation will examine factors that may influence the oral communication abilities of children with hearing loss. Retrospective speech and language data of children with hearing loss who attend a mainstream auditory oral school in San Antonio, Texas will be analyzed relative to their respective hearing losses, hearing technology, and age of intervention. TH 3:30PM-3:45PM, Technical, CC/346 The Listening Questionnaire: Novel Differential Screening for APD Brian O'Hara, Ohana Developmental Pediatrics, Honolulu, HI This 52-item parent rating questionnaire for 7- through 17-year-olds has three scale scores (AP, Attention, and Language) that were very sensitive to differences between normal controls (N=198) and clinical subjects (N=70). Scale items fit the principal factor analytic model 80% of the time. Though all their scale scores were low, behavioral differences among the ADD, APD, and LD groups indicated the potential of this questionnaire for differential APD screening. TH 8:45AM-9:00AM, Technical, CC/349 A Child's CNS Auditory System: Do We Expect Too Much? Ray Hull, Wichita St U, Wichita, KS This presentation focuses on research on the developing auditory CNS and speed of processing of auditory/ linguistic information in the early years. The speech characteristics of adults will also be addressed in terms of what we can expect a child’s CNS to process, interpret and store over-time. A comparison of a child’s expected speed of accurate auditory comprehension/interpretation will be made, and reasons for possible misdiagnosis of CNS auditory processing disorders in children. TH 8:00AM-8:15AM, Technical, CC/349 A Computerized Pitch-Perception Training Program for the Hearing Impaired Dona M. P. Jayakody, University of Canterbury, Christchurch (NZ); Valerie Looi, University of Canterbury, Christchurch (NZ); Emily Lin, U of Canterbury, Christchurch (NZ) A computerized pitch-perception training program, which presented pre-recorded stimuli of different musical instruments and human voices across a wide range of fundamental frequencies and monitored discrimination responses in a hierarchically structured task sequence, was developed to improve the pitch and music perception skills of people using cochlear implants or hearing aids. The effectiveness of this program on pitch perception, as well as the pitch related aspects of speech perception, was assessed. TH 3:45PM-4:00PM, Technical, CC/346 Children's Dichotic Words Test Responses Scored by Automated Speech Recognition Kairn Kelley, U of Vermont, Burlington, VT Automated speech recognition (ASR) technology can quantify important characteristics of verbal responses to auditory processing tests (e.g., response speed, closeness to target). Challenges for ASR scoring of children's responses include lack of linguistic context for responses and high-formant frequencies of children's voices. Audiorecordings of 6- to 10-year-old children's responses to a dichotic words test were analyzed using ASR and compared to human judgments. Implications for research and practice will be discussed. ASHA 2009 x Exhibits & pro gr am sEssions guidE

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