Language Acquisition On Early Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants In Inclusion Kindergarten

Language development in profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants.

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 sk...

The Development of the Lexicon in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: New Insights into Language Acquisition

SPELLING OF DEAF CHILDREN WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS 1 Spelling of Deaf Children Who Use Cochlear Implants

The spellings of 39 profoundly deaf users of cochlear implants, aged 6–12 years, were compared with those of 39 hearing peers. When controlled for age and reading ability, the error rates of the 2 groups were not significantly different. Both groups evinced phonological spelling strategies, performing better on words with more typical sound–spelling correspondences and often making misspellings...

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

Effectiveness of Cochlear Implants in Deaf Children

One direction of our research program at the Indiana University School of Medicine has been concerned with understanding the large individual differences in speech and language outcomes in deaf children who have received cochlear implants (CIs). We are interested in explaining and predicting the enormous variability observed in a wide range of conventional measures of speech and language follow...