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Zanchi, Paola; Zampini, Laura; Pancani, Luca; Berici, Roberta; D'Imperio, Mariapaola – First Language, 2021
This work presents an analysis of the intonation competence in a group of Italian children with cochlear implant (CI). Early cochlear implantation plays a crucial role in language development for children who were born deaf in that it favours the acquisition of complex aspects of language, such as the intonation structure. A story-generation task,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology
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Faes, Jolien; Gillis, Steven – First Language, 2017
In early word productions, the same types of errors are manifest in children with cochlear implants (CI) as in their normally hearing (NH) peers with respect to consonant clusters. However, the incidence of those types and their longitudinal development have not been examined or quantified in the literature thus far. Furthermore, studies on the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Speech Communication
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Talli, Ioanna; Tsalighopoulos, Miltiadis; Okalidou, Areti – First Language, 2018
Weak performance in short-term memory (STM) in children with cochlear implants (CI) may have an impact on vocabulary development. Vocabulary, phonological STM (non-word repetition), phonological/verbal STM (digit span) and rapid naming measures were administered to 15 Greek-speaking children with CI (ages 4;6-8;6) and to chronological age (CA) and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Assistive Technology, Naming, Greek