چکیده:
Objectives: A large number of congenitally deaf children are born annually. If not treated, this will have destructive effects on their language and speech development, educational achievements and future occupation. In this study it has been tried to determine the level of language skills in children with Cochlear Implants (CI) in comparison with Normal Hearing (NH) age-mates. Methods: Test of Language Development was administered to 30 pre-lingual, severe-to-profound CI children between the ages of 5 to 8. The obtained scores were compared to a Persian database from scores of normally hearing children with the same age range. Results: Results indicated that in spite of great advancements in different areas of language after hearing gain, CI children still lag behind their hearing age-mates in almost all aspects of language skills. Conclusion: Based on the results, it is suggested that children with average or above average cognitive skills who use CI have the potential to produce and understand language comparable to their normally hearing peers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 11, No. 17, April 2013 Original Article A comparison of Linguistic Skills between Persian Cochlear Implant and Normal Hearing Children Mohammad Rahimi1; Firooz Sadighi; Samineh Razeghi Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Objectives: A large number of congenitally deaf children are born annually.
In this study it has been tried to determine the level of language skills in children with Cochlear Implants (CI) in comparison with Normal Hearing (NH) age-mates.
Conclusion: Based on the results, it is suggested that children with average or above average cognitive skills who use CI have the potential to produce and understand language comparable to their normally hearing peers.
Studies have explored the language skills of children with Cochlear Implants (CI)s compared to Normal Hearing (NH) peers.
Nine subscales cover the following areas: Picture Vocabulary (30 questions), Relational Vocabulary (30 questions), Oral Vocabulary (28 questions), Syntactic Understanding (25 questions), Sentence Imitation (30 questions), Morphological Completion (28 questions), and Word Discrimination (20 questions), Word Analysis (14 questions) and Word Articulation (20 questions).
Results The Comparison between the Semantic Skills of CI and NH Children The semantic component of TOLD is composed of 3 subscales of picture vocabulary, relational vocabulary, and oral vocabulary, all of which examine the participants’ semantic competence in their language.
Language Achievement in Children Who Received Cochlear Implants between 1 and 2 Years of Age: Group Trends and Individual Patterns Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.