Language Skills of Children with Early Cochlear Implantation

Abstract

Use of a cochlear implant has had a dramatic impact on the linguistic competence of profoundly hearing-impaired children. More than half of the children in this sample with average learning ability produced and understood English language at a level comparable with that of their hearing age mates. Such mature language outcomes were not typical of children with profound hearing loss who used hearing aids. Use of a visual (i.e., sign) language system did not provide the linguistic advantage that had been anticipated. Children educated without use of sign exhibited a significant advantage in their use of narratives, the breadth of their vocabulary, in their use of bound morphemes, in the length of their utterances and in the complexity of the syntax used in their spontaneous language. An oral educational focus provided a significant advantage for both spoken and total language skills.

Desenvolvimento da linguagem em crianças com implante coclear: terá o gênero alguma influência?

“…In a study involving 134 children with cochlear implants, up to the age of 3, in which language development was assessed, those authors found that the best results were associated to the female gender. This was also corroborated by Geers et al (2007) 15 16 when they assessed 181 children from 8 to 9 years of age with cochlear implants. In effect, despite having no significant differences recorded, the doubt is maintained as to a possible influence of gender on linguistic gains of children with cochlear implant.…”

“…Although implanted children are capable of developing good linguistic capacities, the great variability of results between genders, observed by different authors, remains a matter of motivation 9,[14][15][16] . It is a fact that the number of individuals in our sample was relatively small.…”

“…The influence of gender in children with the cochlear implant has also been the subject of investigation 9,[14][15][16] 16 concluded that female children have been showing better results in language than male children. The studies of Gérard et al (2010) 9 concluded that there were no statistically significant differences between genders regarding language development.…”

Estudo longitudinal da compreensão verbal de crianças usuárias de implante coclear

“…Carla Aparecida de Urzedo Fortunato Queiroz (1) , Maria Cecília Bevilacqua (2) , Maria da Piedade Resende da Costa (3) RESUMO Objetivo: analisar a compreensão verbal de crianças surdas usuárias de implante coclear (IC) por meio de um estudo longitudinal. Métodos: os participantes foram nove crianças surdas usuárias de IC.…”

“…A idade cronológica das crianças variou entre quatro e oito anos e o tempo de uso do IC foi, em média, 1 ano e 6 meses na 1ª avaliação, 3 anos e 7 meses na 2ª avaliação e 4 anos e 9 meses na 3ª avaliação. [2][3][4][5] . Ele fornece, especi camente, acesso a informações em frequências altas, o que em geral não é observado com o uso de aparelho auditivo 6 .…”