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The results have implications for efforts to help children with hearing loss surmount initial language delays caused by a lack of auditory input and access to speech sounds before they receive cochlear implants.

They might say “one, two, three” or “one, one, one” where the number of speech sounds corresponds to the number of apples they see.

With their technology, the investigators showed that it's possible to reliably determine the speech sounds that individuals will say before they articulate them.

Finally, children were asked to match words based on whether they began or ended with the same speech sound, a task essential not only to speech development but also to reading acquisition.

Analysis of the change in responses to speech sounds before and after the loss of the hub revealed a rapid disruption of signaling and subsequent partial compensation of the broader brain network.