| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
It is known that children with Down's syndrome have their own oral language characterized. lndeed various speech therapy have so far been tried for such children, but actually no remarkable therapeutics effect canbe obstained because of malfunction of their speech center and articulatory organs, and the like.
Therefore, Matsumoto (1985), who happened to turn his viewpoint from these children as speakers to us receiver,studies possible hearing conditions for improving efficiency of receiver's apprehension of speech sounds of these children, and obtained some information; as an approach to the above improvement, he adopted giving the receiver not only speech sounds but also "some hint on the contents of these words which they are expressing" or "initial sounds of those words which they are expressing".
Invenstigations were made in articulatory apprehension using samples of speech sounds (speech sounds, image) prepared on the basis of the above three conditions. Raters, divided into three groups, made ratings by samples. The results obtained revealed the following:
1 Gesture hint effect: Hint effect was high and low for those words easy to express thier characteristics by gesture and for those words with less realistic elements, respectively. It was also high for those children skillful at gesture expression.
2 Initial sound hint effect: Hint effect was high, but those word which were substituted by entirely different articulations and pronounced ambiguously was low too, and for those children with clears articulations it was also low.
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