This research investigated the concurrent association between early reading skills and phonological awareness (PA), print knowledge, language, cognitive, and demographic variables in 101 5-year-old children with prelingual hearing losses ranging from mild to profound who communicated primarily using spoken language. All participants were fitted with hearing aids (n = 71) or cochlear implants (n...

This study explores the effects of child-external and child-internal factors on vocabulary skills Vietnamese pre-schoolers. Thirty-nine children (54-77 months) were tested cognition skills. Their parents completed a questionnaire background information. Correlation regression analyses performed to explore contribution multiple variability in Results showed that varied across modality domain. Pr...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study in Greek school aged children & data for expressive and receptive language for this population) Tafiadis Dionysios, Augi Bergadi, Xrysanthi Gkrekou, Euaggelia Karagianni, Foteini-Parakseyi Kantakou, Kaliopi Kentioglou, Iosifina Paroutiadou, Konstantina Papageorgiou, Maria Tafiadi, Georgia...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study in Greek Junior High School aged children & data for expressive and receptive language for this population) Tafiadis Dionysios, Anastasios Mokas, Konstantinos Chorevas, Euaggelia Bogindrouka, Kaliopi Kentioglou, Emmanouil Pantazis, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiolo...

This article employs meta-analysis procedures to evaluate whether children with cochlear implants demonstrate lower spoken-language vocabulary knowledge than peers with normal hearing. Of the 754 articles screened and 52 articles coded, 12 articles met predetermined inclusion criteria (with an additional 5 included for one analysis). Effect sizes were calculated for relevant studies and forest ...

BACKGROUND Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is associated with phonological awareness, reading, and spelling deficits. Comparing literacy skills in CAS with other developmental speech disorders is critical for understanding the complexity of the disorder. AIMS This study compared the phonological awareness and reading development of children with CAS and children with inconsistent speech dis...

This study explores morpho-syntactic reading comprehension in 19 Spanish children who received a cochlear implant (CI) before 24 months of age (early CI [e-CI]) and 19 Spanish children who received a CI after 24 months (late CI [l-CI]). They all were in primary school and were compared to a hearing control (HC) group of 19 children. Tests of perceptual reasoning, working memory, receptive vocab...

Little attention has been focused on stress levels of parents of children with cochlear implants (CIs). This study examined the stress experience of 70 parents of children with CIs by comparing stress levels in this group of parents to those in parents of children without disabilities, identifying primary stressors, examining the relationship between parent stress and child language, and compar...

Signaling noncomprehension of the spoken messages of others was examined for youth with fragile X or Down syndrome in comparison with each other and nonverbal MA-matched typically developing children. A direction-following task was used in which some of the directions were inadequate. Both syndrome groups signaled noncomprehension less often than did the typically developing children. The abili...

Background Recent studies indicate that school-age children's patterns of performance on measures of verbal and visuospatial short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) differ across types of neurodevelopmental disorders. Because these disorders are often characterized by early language delay, administering STM and WM tests to toddlers could improve prediction of neurodevelopmental outcomes...