My Diary - Med-El
My Diary - Med-El
My Diary - Med-El
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1. What were the most interesting observations this week?<br />
The speech feedback loop<br />
When infants cry, vocalize (use their voice) or babble they can hear themselves. This encourages<br />
them to continue vocalizing and reinforces them to vocalize or babble even more. We call<br />
this the “speech feedback loop,” which is essential for speech development. Very often, after<br />
children have been fitted with a hearing aid or cochlear implant, we can start to hear changes<br />
in their voices and sound patterns. Clearly they can hear themselves and thus change their<br />
speech production. Children who already started vocalizing or using words before they got their<br />
cochlear implant commonly change their voice patterns after a relatively short period of time.<br />
Children who hadn’t used their voices may start to vocalize now, and start babbling: bababab<br />
dadadada bada bada bada. We can observe these changes, given that the hearing aids supply<br />
sufficient amplification.
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