Objective: The current update of the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model
evaluates the predictive and postdictive aspects of speech understanding and …

Everyday listening may be experienced as effortful, especially by individuals with hearing
loss. This may be due to internal factors, such as cognitive load, and external factors, such …

In the primary school classroom, children are exposed to multiple factors that combine to
create adverse conditions for listening to and understanding what the teacher is saying …

The latent constructs psychologists study are typically not directly accessible, so researchers
must design measurement instruments that are intended to provide insights about those …

When comprehending speech-in-noise (SiN), younger and older adults benefit from seeing
the speaker's mouth, ie visible speech. Younger adults additionally benefit from manual …

It is widely accepted that seeing a talker improves a listener's ability to understand what a
talker is saying in background noise (eg, Erber, 1969; Sumby & Pollack, 1954). The literature …

This study examined the effect of levels of working memory capacity, levels of background
noise, and audiovisual cues on adults' ability to process speech when listening in noise. A …

In this work, quantitative research is carried out on the importance that educators give to
literacy work in early childhood education classrooms and the impact that the COVID-19 …

This article reports on speech-language pathologists'(SLPs') knowledge related to myths
about spoken language learning of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). The …

Purpose We review the evidence for attenuating visual input during intervention to enhance
auditory development and ultimately improve spoken language outcomes in children with …