Measurement of Intelligibility and Semantic Skills in d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

This project focues on describing a number of different aspects of speech and semantic skills in college-aged d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) students. This includes a comparison of different objective and subjective methods of assessing speech intelligibility in DHH students, piloting of a new method of assessing intelligibility in signed languages, assessing multilingual semantic fluency in DHH students, understanding typicality effects in DHH students, and examining linguistic category construction and flexibility in DHH students.

The project takes place at the Center for Education Research Partnerships at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

Our principal investigator: Kathryn Margaret Crowe, Post Doc in Speech Pathology at the University of Iceland.