Emergent literacy in kindergartners with cochlear implants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A key ingredient to academic success is being able to read. Deaf individuals have historically failed to develop literacy skills comparable with those of their normal-hearing (NH) peers, but early identification and cochlear implants (CIs) have improved prospects such that these children can learn to read at the levels of their peers. The goal of this study was to examine early, or emergent, literacy in these children.

Method

Twenty-seven deaf children with CIs, who had just completed kindergarten were tested on emergent literacy, and on cognitive and linguistic skills that support emergent literacy, specifically ones involving phonological awareness, executive functioning, and oral language. Seventeen kindergartners with NH and eight with hearing loss, but who use

SUBMITTER: Nittrouer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3419773 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature