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Maturation of Speech Recognition for Noisy Environments, in partnership with American Auditory Society

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1.  Immaturity at which of the following stages of auditory processing can impact how well children hear masked speech?
  1. peripheral encoding
  2. auditory grouping
  3. selective attention
  4. all of the above
2.  Consider a child listening to their teacher in a classroom in the presence of the following different background sounds. Listening in which type of background sound is likely to be the last to mature?
  1. Steady noise produced by the heating and ventilation system.
  2. Speech produced by two children who are seated nearby.
  3. traffic noise outside of the classroom.
  4. The squeaky noise produced by the chairs of students when they move.
3.  Which of the following listener factors does not appear to impact children's speech recognition in the presence of competing speech?
  1. eye color
  2. age
  3. language skills
  4. hearing loss
4.  Which of the following statements regarding the ChEgSS Test is TRUE?
  1. Testing can be performed in quiet, in the presence of competing noise, or in the presence of competing music.
  2. The tester does not need to be fluent in the test language.
  3. Monitored live voice is the preferred testing method.
  4. A different talker produced the target words in the two languages.
5.  What types of target speech might children encounter in their everyday listening environments?
  1. speech produced by other children
  2. speech produced with an unfamiliar accent or dialect
  3. whispered speech
  4. all of the above