An Exploration of Auditory Brainstem Encoding of Stop Consonants in Infants and Implications for Language Outcomes

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dc.contributor.advisorAnderson, Samira Ben_US
dc.contributor.authorRosner, Rachel Steinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHearing and Speech Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T06:15:54Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T06:15:54Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractCurrent trends in speech-language pathology focus on early intervention as the preferred tool for promoting the best possible outcomes in children with language disorders. Neuroimaging techniques are being studied as promising tools for flagging at-risk infants. In this study, the auditory brainstem response (ABR) to the syllables /ba/ and /ga/ was examined in 41 infants between 3 and 12 months of age as a possible tool to predict language development in toddlerhood. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI) was used to assess language development at 18 months of age. The current study compared the periodicity of the responses to the stop consonants and phase differences between /ba/ and /ga/ in both at-risk and low-risk groups. The study also examined whether there are correlations among ABR measures (periodicity and phase differentiation) and language development. The study found that these measures predict language development at 18 months.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2RV2V
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18394
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLanguageen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAudiologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAuditory Brainstem Responseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEarly Interventionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLanguage Delaysen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLanguage Impairmenten_US
dc.titleAn Exploration of Auditory Brainstem Encoding of Stop Consonants in Infants and Implications for Language Outcomesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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