Auditory and verbal memory predictors of spoken language skills in children with cochlear implants

Hoog, Brigitte E. de; Langereis, Margreet; Weerdenburg, Marjolijn van; Keuning, Jos; Knoors, Harry

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2016.06.019

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“…CIs. Previous research has suggested children with HL may have weaker semantic connections between words (Jerger et al, 2002;Walker, Redfern, et al, 2019), though past findings have been mixed (de Hoog et al, 2015;Jerger et al, 2013). Although it is possible that children with HL do experience deficits in the quality of their lexical-semantic networks due to their HL, this was not evident in the VWP task used in this study.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…This may lead to weaker semantic connections between words, or between words and their sematic features (Löfkvist et al, 2012;Lund & Dinsmoor, 2016;Wechsler-Kashi et al, 2014). Some studies using picture-word priming tasks have suggested that children with HL may have deficits in their lexical-semantic network organization, though the findings are mixed (de Hoog et al, 2015;Jerger et al, 2002;Jerger et al, 2013). However, these priming studies required children to name words aloud; thus, it is not clear if these semantic deficits extend to speech comprehension, which is arguably a more challenging domain for children with HL.…”

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Delayed lexical access and cascading effects on semantic activation during spoken word recognition in children with hearing aids and cochlear implants: Evidence from eye-tracking

Klein¹,

Walker²,

McMurray³

2021

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Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamics of real-time lexical access, including lexical competition among phonologically similar words, and semantic activation in school-age children with hearing aids (HAs) and children with cochlear implants (CIs). We hypothesized that developing spoken language via degraded auditory input would lead children with HAs or CIs to adapt their approach to spoken word recognition, especially by slowing down lexical access.Design: Participants were children ages 9-12 years old with normal hearing (NH), HAs, or CIs. Participants completed a Visual World Paradigm task in which they heard a spoken word and selected the matching picture from four options. Competitor items were either phonologically similar, semantically similar, or unrelated to the target word. As the target word unfolded, children’s fixations to the target word, cohort competitor, rhyme competitor, semantically related item, and unrelated item were recorded as indices of ongoing lexical and semantic activation.Results: Children with HAs and children with CIs showed slower fixations to the target, reduced fixations to the cohort, and increased fixations to the rhyme, relative to children with NH. This wait-and-see profile was more pronounced in the children with CIs than the children with HAs. Children with HAs and children with CIs also showed delayed fixations to the semantically related item, though this delay was attributable to their delay in activating words in general, not to a distinct semantic source.Conclusions: Children with HAs and children with CIs showed qualitatively similar patterns of real-time spoken word recognition. Findings suggest that developing spoken language via degraded auditory input causes long-term cognitive adaptations to how listeners recognize spoken words, regardless of the type of hearing device used. Delayed lexical activation directly led to delayed semantic activation in children with HAs and CIs. This delay in semantic processing may impact these children’s ability to understand connected speech in everyday life.

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Section: Effects Of Hl On Real-time Semantic Activationmentioning

confidence: 55%

Section: Semantic Activation During Spoken Word Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Delayed lexical access and cascading effects on semantic activation during spoken word recognition in children with hearing aids and cochlear implants: Evidence from eye-tracking

Klein¹,

Walker²,

McMurray³

2021

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“…Speech perception and language processing are dependent on fast and efficient phonological coding of auditory input in verbal short-term memory, i.e., stable phonological representations. Thus, verbal short-term memory operates as a linkage between auditory speech input and the stored language knowledge in the longterm memory [33].…”

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Evaluation of working memory in relation to cochlear implant consonant speech discrimination

Ghazaly

Mourad

Hamouda

et al. 2021

Egypt J Otolaryngol

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Background Speech perception in cochlear implants (CI) is affected by frequency resolution, exposure time, and working memory. Frequency discrimination is especially difficult in CI. Working memory is important for speech and language development and is expected to contribute to the vast variability in CI speech reception and expression outcome. The aim of this study is to evaluate CI patients’ consonants discrimination that varies in voicing, manner, and place of articulation imparting differences in pitch, time, and intensity, and also to evaluate working memory status and its possible effect on consonant discrimination. Results Fifty-five CI patients were included in this study. Their aided thresholds were less than 40 dBHL. Consonant speech discrimination was assessed using Arabic consonant discrimination words. Working memory was assessed using Test of Memory and Learning-2 (TOMAL-2). Subjects were divided according to the onset of hearing loss into prelingual children and postlingual adults and teenagers. Consonant classes studied were fricatives, stops, nasals, and laterals. Performance on the high frequency CVC words was 64.23% ± 17.41 for prelinguals and 61.70% ± 14.47 for postlinguals. These scores were significantly lower than scores on phonetically balanced word list (PBWL) of 79.94% ± 12.69 for prelinguals and 80.80% ± 11.36 for postlinguals. The lowest scores were for the fricatives. Working memory scores were strongly and positively correlated with speech discrimination scores. Conclusions Consonant discrimination using high frequency weighted words can provide a realistic tool for assessment of CI speech perception. Working memory skills showed a strong positive relationship with speech discrimination abilities in CI.

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“…Child's age of chronological implantation influences psychosocial problems and difficulties [18]. Future research should center on the functional hearing children have from birth until they receive their implants, when oral communication, lexis, and grammar develop [44].…”

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Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties, Communication, Intelligence, and Reasoning in Children with Hearing Difficulties

Rosa

Angulo

2019

Education Sciences

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This study aims to investigate whether emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD) differ between children with cochlear implants (CIs) or hearing aids (HAs), according to multi-informant ratings. Methods: A battery of psychological measures (e.g., Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA), Peabody Image Vocabulary Test (PPVT), and Raven Progressive Matrices Test (RPM), was administered to children with CIs or HAs. The study involved 187 children with CIs, 113 children with HAs, 176 fathers and mothers, and 300 schoolteachers. Results: Significant disagreements were found between children, parents, and schoolteachers with regard to SDQ ratings. Total SDQ difficulties score correlated poorly with other outcomes (e.g., total ITPA, final PPVT, and final RPM). Regression linear analyses showed six socio-demographic and linguistic covariates that significantly predicted children’s total SDQ difficulties score. Conclusion: Several independent variables were found to be associated with children’s total EBD scores. This article highlights the importance of providing professionals with sufficient training so that they are knowledgeable about the procedures they are to use to support children with EBD (e.g., developing and implementing instructional approaches for school students with EBD).

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Auditory and verbal memory predictors of spoken language skills in children with cochlear implants

Cited by 17 publications

References 66 publications

Delayed lexical access and cascading effects on semantic activation during spoken word recognition in children with hearing aids and cochlear implants: Evidence from eye-tracking

Delayed lexical access and cascading effects on semantic activation during spoken word recognition in children with hearing aids and cochlear implants: Evidence from eye-tracking

Evaluation of working memory in relation to cochlear implant consonant speech discrimination

Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties, Communication, Intelligence, and Reasoning in Children with Hearing Difficulties

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