Influence of Perceived Listening Effort for Individuals with Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech
Presentation Type
Poster
Faculty Advisor
Kate Nealon
Access Type
Event
Start Date
26-4-2024 9:45 AM
End Date
26-4-2024 10:44 AM
Description
Intelligibility is a measure of how well-understood an individual’s speech is. However, this can be subjective depending on the listener. To investigate this idea further, Dr. Kate Nealon and GAs Meghan Santarelli and Julia Pereira have been working on a perceived listening project that takes speech samples of adults with Aphasia and co-occurring Apraxia with varying levels of intelligibility. These speech samples will then be presented to three different groups of participants who are separated based on their familiarity with interacting with adults with Aphasia and co-occurring Apraxia. Through having a diverse group of listeners, the investigators hope to broaden their understanding of how an SLP listener may contrast from a novice listener, in terms of the intelligibility of individuals with Aphasia and Apraxia. It is predicted that individuals with experience with this population will rank intelligibility higher than novice listeners. To investigate multiple perspectives of perceived listening, audio segments from participants with Aphasia and co-occurring Apraxia were recorded via Zoom. Following the collection of these samples, three groups were recruited to listen and complete a questionnaire concerning their listening experience. The groups include practicing SLPs, graduate students who have taken motor speech, and novice listeners. To measure perceived listening, participants were asked to transcribe what they heard, rate the level of intelligibility, and rate their perception of the effort it took to understand the sample. The results of this study are not yet available, however we predict they will be in September 2024.
Influence of Perceived Listening Effort for Individuals with Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech
Intelligibility is a measure of how well-understood an individual’s speech is. However, this can be subjective depending on the listener. To investigate this idea further, Dr. Kate Nealon and GAs Meghan Santarelli and Julia Pereira have been working on a perceived listening project that takes speech samples of adults with Aphasia and co-occurring Apraxia with varying levels of intelligibility. These speech samples will then be presented to three different groups of participants who are separated based on their familiarity with interacting with adults with Aphasia and co-occurring Apraxia. Through having a diverse group of listeners, the investigators hope to broaden their understanding of how an SLP listener may contrast from a novice listener, in terms of the intelligibility of individuals with Aphasia and Apraxia. It is predicted that individuals with experience with this population will rank intelligibility higher than novice listeners. To investigate multiple perspectives of perceived listening, audio segments from participants with Aphasia and co-occurring Apraxia were recorded via Zoom. Following the collection of these samples, three groups were recruited to listen and complete a questionnaire concerning their listening experience. The groups include practicing SLPs, graduate students who have taken motor speech, and novice listeners. To measure perceived listening, participants were asked to transcribe what they heard, rate the level of intelligibility, and rate their perception of the effort it took to understand the sample. The results of this study are not yet available, however we predict they will be in September 2024.