How do children build their speech systems, even when navigating sensory differences like hearing loss?
In this episode of Beyond Words, Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP, sits down with Dr. Meg Cychosz, PhD, to unpack her research on canonical proportion, a critical measure of mature syllable production. You’ll hear how this measure continues to develop well beyond infancy, with insights drawn from a large cross-linguistic dataset.
The conversation then explores the everyday language environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants, highlighting differences in input and access. Garrett and Dr. Cychosz also discuss new findings that suggest deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children may experience more phonological competition during real-time word recognition.
Together, these findings provide a clearer picture of how speech develops across sensory and linguistic contexts, and what clinicians and caregivers can do to best support it.
In this episode of Beyond Words, Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP, sits down with Dr. Meg Cychosz, PhD, to unpack her research on canonical proportion, a critical measure of mature syllable production. You’ll hear how this measure continues to develop well beyond infancy, with insights drawn from a large cross-linguistic dataset.
The conversation then explores the everyday language environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants, highlighting differences in input and access. Garrett and Dr. Cychosz also discuss new findings that suggest deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children may experience more phonological competition during real-time word recognition.
Together, these findings provide a clearer picture of how speech develops across sensory and linguistic contexts, and what clinicians and caregivers can do to best support it.
