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Language Development in Profoundly Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
- Source :
- Psychological Science. 11:153-158
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2000.
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Abstract
- Although cochlear implants improve the ability of profoundly deaf children to understand speech, critics claim that the published literature does not document even a single case of a child who has developed a linguistic system based on input from an implant. Thus, it is of clinical and scientific importance to determine whether cochlear implants facilitate the development of English language skills. The English language skills of prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants were measured before and after implantation. We found that the rate of language development after implantation exceeded that expected from unimplanted deaf children (p < .001) and was similar to that of children with normal hearing. Despite a large amount of individual variability, the best performers in the implanted group seem to be developing an oral linguistic system based largely on auditory input obtained from a cochlear implant.
- Subjects :
- Male
Linguistic system
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
English language
Deafness
Audiology
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cochlear implant
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
medicine
Humans
Language Development Disorders
Child
030223 otorhinolaryngology
General Psychology
Language Tests
Infant
Prognosis
Language development
Cochlear Implants
Child, Preschool
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Speech Perception
Female
Implant
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14679280 and 09567976
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychological Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1ea184eee731e30391143ad36a75d087