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Evaluating Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users' Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval Strategies in Verbal Working Memory
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AuBuchon, Angela M.; Pisoni, David B.; Kronenberger, William G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The current study adopts a systematic approach to the examination of working memory components in pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users by separately assessing contributions of encoding, storage, and retrieval. Method: Forty-nine long-term CI users and 56 typically hearing controls completed forward and backward span tasks with 3 stimulus…
Descriptors: Children, Assistive Technology, Short Term Memory, Naming
Differences in Spoken Lexical Skills: Preschool Children with Cochlear Implants and Children with Typical Hearing
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Luckhurst, Joan A.; Lauback, Cris W.; VanSkiver, Ann P. Unterstein – Volta Review, 2013
Children with significant hearing loss may experience great difficulty developing spoken language and literacy skills to a level commensurate with children of the same age with typical hearing. While studies of children who use cochlear implants show improved spoken language outcomes in some cases, when compared to the same children's earlier use…
Descriptors: Differences, Preschool Children, Assistive Technology, Deafness
Stimulability: Relationships to Other Characteristics of Children's Phonological Systems
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Tyler, Ann A.; Macrae, Toby – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
In honour of Miccio's memory, this article revisits the topic of stimulability in children with speech sound disorders (SSD). Eighteen children with SSD, aged 3;6-5;5 (M = 4;8), were tested for their system-wide stimulability, percentage consonants correct (PCC), phonetic inventory size, and oral- and speech-motor skills. Pearson Product Moment…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Young Children, Speech Impairments
CENTRAL AUDITORY ABILITIES OF NORMAL AND LOWER GROUP READERS.
FLOWERS, ARTHUR – 1964
THE GOALS OF THE REPORTED RESEARCH WERE (1) TO EVALUATE THE HEARING IN EARLY-ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN A REGULAR PUBLIC SCHOOL READING PROGRAM, (2) TO COMPARE THE AUDITORY AND PERCEPTUAL ABILITIES OF CHILDREN WHO CAN AND CHILDREN WHO CANNOT DO THE NORMAL READING FOR THEIR GRADE, AND (3) TO SEARCH FOR RELATIONS BETWEEN READING ACHIEVEMENT…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Diagnostic Tests, Grade 3
THE EFFECTS OF LISTENING TRAINING ON THE AUDITORY THRESHOLDS OF MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN.
SCHLANGER, BERNARD B. – 1961
THE EFFECTS OF LISTENING TRAINING ON THE AUDITORY THRESHOLDS OF MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WERE DETERMINED. THE EFFECTS OF LISTENING TRAINING AND ITS PROMISE FOR LOWERED THRESHOLDS WERE INVESTIGATED AND EVALUATED FROM CHANGES IN MAGNITUDE SCORES, DIRECTION OF THRESHOLD, INTELLIGENCE, AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN COMMUNICATION ATTITUDES OR RATED BY…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Deafness, Handicapped Children
Language Learning in Down Syndrome: The Speech and Language Profile Compared to Adolescents with Cognitive Impairment of Unknown Origin
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Chapman, Robin S. – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2006
Children and adolescents with Down syndrome show an emerging profile of speech and language characteristics that is typical of the syndrome (Chapman & Hesketh, 2000; Chapman, 2003; Abbeduto & Chapman, 2005) and different from typically developing children matched for nonverbal mental age, including expressive language deficits relative to…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Matched Groups