Work Package 2
Cognitive listening effort in adverse conditions is increasingly conceived as a crucial component of speech communication and language learning. This work package will explore various means to make communication easier and help children with hearing impairment to optimise their cognitive resources for interaction and learning. Multimodality is a primary means to provide enhanced input, associating the degraded auditory input to vision (for both lipreading and spatial hearing, and with the possible addition of manual linguistic cues) but also somatosensory information on the speaker’s gestures. Various tools for cognitive training together with innovative speech technologies will also be explored to enhance communication and learning.