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ERIC Number: EJ1465645
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-4159
EISSN: EISSN-1465-7325
Available Date: 2024-09-20
Speech Production Skills of Bilingual Children Using Cochlear Implants
Pauline van der Straten Waillet1,2; Kathryn Crowe3,4; Brigitte Charlier1,2; Cécile Colin1
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, v30 n2 p182-194 2025
Evidence is lacking on the impact of bilingualism on the speech skills of children with cochlear implants (CIs). This study described the speech production of children with CIs acquiring French and one or more additional spoken languages. Four groups of children aged 4-11 were included: bilinguals (n = 15) and monolinguals (n = 14) with CIs and bilinguals (n = 14) and monolinguals (n = 20) with typical hearing. Data were collected about the percentage of consonant correct (PCC) and vowel correct (PVC) produced in French and intelligibility in all languages they spoke. Bilingual and monolingual children with CIs had comparable speech accuracy in French, but the pattern differed, impacting PCC for bilinguals and PVC for monolinguals. Most children with CIs had accurate and intelligible speech in French, but few bilingual children with CIs were highly intelligible in their home language. Therefore, bilingualism did not impede the speech production outcomes of bilingual children with CIs in the language of the wider community.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium; 2Centre Comprendre et Parler, Bruxelles, Belgium; 3School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; 4School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia