Attention to speech and spoken language development in deaf children with cochlear implants: a 10-year longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: Early auditory/language experience plays an important role in language development. In this study, we examined the effects of severe-to-profound hearing loss and subsequent cochlear implantation on the development of attention to speech in children with cochlear implants (CIs). In addition, we investigated the extent to which attention to speech may predict spoken language development in children with CIs. We tested children with CIs and compared them to chronologically age-matched peers with normal hearing (NH) on their attention to speech at four time points post implantation; specifically, less than 1 month, 3 to 6 months, 12 months, and 18 months post implantation. We also collected a variety of well-established speech perception and spoken language measures from the children with CIs

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6202126 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature