Meta-Analytic Findings on Reading in Children With Cochlear Implants.

ABSTRACT: This meta-analysis study aims to quantify the group differences in reading skills between children with cochlear implants and their hearing peers and between children with cochlear implants and children with hearing aids (aged between 3 and 18 years old). Of the 5,642 articles screened, 47 articles met predetermined inclusion criteria (published between 2002 and 2019). The robust variance estimation based meta-analysis models were used to synthesize all the effect sizes. Children with cochlear implants scored significantly lower than their hearing peers in phonological awareness (g = -1.62, p < 0.001), vocabulary (g = -1.50, p < 0.001), decoding (g = -1.24, p < 0.001), and reading comprehension (g = -1.39, p < 0.001), but not for fluency (g = -0.67, p = 0.054). Compared to children with he

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8208105 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature