Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate listeners' ratings of normal hearing and hearing‐impaired speakers' on the following four a priori factors: intelligence, achievement, personality, and appearance. Additionally, alterations in listener ratings were investigated as a function of whether or not subjects wore hearing aids regardless of speaker types. Recorded speech samples of four normal hearing, four hard of hearing, and four deaf children were used as audio stimuli; and two photographic slides of each child (one showing him wearing a hearing aid, and one showing him not wearing a hearing aid) served as visual stimuli. The stimuli were heard and seen by 150 normal listeners who rated various characteristics of the speakers on a semantic differential scale. Ratings were submitted to a multivariate analysis which revealed that listeners' impressions of speakers were “more negative” both when the speaker had “hearing‐impaired” speech and when his photograph showed him wearing a hearing aid.
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