Ajish Abraham

• Applied Logic Laboratory

The aim of this study was to evaluate the significance of four derived acoustic measures of speech in Hindi speaking children with hearing impairment (Group I, n=16). Typically developing children (Group II, n=30) were included as control group. The derived measures considered were vowel space area (VSA), formant centralization ratio (FCR3), four v...

Surgery of palate is one of the important rehabilitation for children with cleft lip and palate. In most of the children with cleft lip and palate (CLP), speech errors persist even after surgical repair of the palate. However, the timing of palatal repair plays a vital role. The associated problems in children with cleft lip and palate differ based...

Speech intelligibility is considered as the primary measure to evaluate the speech outcome of therapy and other rehabilitation for cleft lip and palate (CLP) individuals. It has been found that the CLP speech intelligibility primarily degrades due to several speech disorders, such as hypernasality, consonants production errors, and voice disorders....

Cleft lip and palate (CLP) is one of the most common congenital birth defects in India characterized by abnormalities in oral resonance, nasal air emission and presence of compensatory articulation errors which affect the intelligibility of speech. Children with CLP require early surgical intervention to establish appropriate oral motor skills that...

Modification of temporal features of a speech signal as it passes through the processing stages in a digital hearing aid may affect the speech recognition and speech perception. Transformation of voice onset time (VOT) may be one factor which affects the intelligibility of hearing aid processed speech and thereby affecting the factor of clarity of...