Language Development in Profoundly Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants

Psychological Science - Tập 11 Số 2 - Trang 153-158 - 2000
Mario A. Svirsky1, Amy McConkey Robbins1, Karen Iler Kirk1, David B. Pisoni1, Richard T. Miyamoto1
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine

Tóm tắt

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.

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Psychological Science

Tập 11 Số 2

153-158

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