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Morpho-Syntactic Reading Comprehension in Children with Early and Late Cochlear Implants
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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Volume 20, Number 2, ISSN 1081-4159

Abstract

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 vocabulary, and morpho-syntactic comprehension were used in the assessment. It was observed that while children with l-CI showed a delay, those with e-CI reached a level close to that which was obtained by their control peers in morpho-syntactic comprehension. Thus, results confirm a positive effect of early implantation on morpho-syntactic reading comprehension. Inflectional morphology and simple sentence comprehension were noted to be better in the e-CI group than in the l-CI group. The most important factor in distinguishing between the HC and l-CI groups or the e-CI and l-CI groups was verbal inflectional morphology.

Citation

López-Higes, R., Gallego, C., Martín-Aragoneses, M.T. & Melle, N. (2015). Morpho-Syntactic Reading Comprehension in Children with Early and Late Cochlear Implants. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 20(2), 136-146. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .

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