Abstract
Recent work has shown that preschool children initiate more conversations than their mothers and fathers. It has also been shown that boys and girls initiate conversations at about the same rate. It is not known if children with hearing loss initiate conversations at comparable rates to their typically-developing peers, or whether boys and girls with hearing loss differ. In this work, we collected daylong audio recordings from preschoolers with hearing loss using a body-worn audio recorder. We used automatic speech processing routines on the 7600 + hours of audio to identify talkers and conversational turns in their natural family settings. We examined how children with hearing loss initiate conversations compared with their typically-developing peers. We found no difference in rate of conversation initiation by hearing status or sex. We did find that regardless of hearing status or sex, children consistently initiate more conversations with their mothers than with their fathers. Results bear on the role of conversational exchanges, joint attention, and the auditory experiences during speech and language development in children with hearing loss.
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