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Dillon, Caitlin M.; Burkholder, Rose A.; Cleary, Miranda; Pisoni, David B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
Seventy-six children with cochlear implants completed a nonword repetition task. The children were presented with 20 nonword auditory patterns over a loudspeaker and were asked to repeat them aloud to the experimenter. The children's responses were recorded on digital audiotape and then played back to normal-hearing adult listeners to obtain…
Descriptors: Total Communication, Speech Communication, Memory, Educational Environment
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Cleary, Miranda; Pisoni, David B.; Kirk, Karen Iler – Volta Review, 2000
A study investigated whether differences in working memory could account for variance in word recognition and receptive vocabulary skills of children (ages 5-16) using oral communication (n=32) and total communication (n=29). A contribution from working memory was observed only for the span tasks that incorporated an auditory processing component.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cochlear Implants, Deafness, Early Childhood Education