Vocal Turn-Taking Between Mothers and Their Children With Cochlear Implants.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The primary objective of the study was to examine the occurrence and temporal structure of vocal turn-taking during spontaneous interactions between mothers and their children with cochlear implants (CI) over the first year after cochlear implantation as compared with interactions between mothers and children with normal hearing (NH).

Design

Mothers' unstructured play sessions with children with CI (n = 12) were recorded at 2 time points, 3 months (mean age 18.3 months) and 9 months (mean age 27.5 months) post-CI. A separate control group of mothers with age-matched hearing children (n = 12) was recorded at the same 2 time points. Five types of events were coded: mother and child vocalizations, vocalizations including speech overlap, and between- and within-speake

SUBMITTER: Kondaurova MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9618230 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar/Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature