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…

The study investigated the use of phonological encoding and chunking strategies (the skimming and clustering of highly familiar material into meaningful units) with congenitally deaf students at the middle and upper levels of an oralist school as well as hearing students at the second, third, fourth, fifth, and college grade levels. Ss were asked…

Analysis of stop consonant production by 12 children (ages 6-12) who have used cochlear implants for at least 5 years indicates children's stop inventories differed from English mainly in having additional, non-English stops. Total communication users had fewer ambient stops and more nonambient ones that did oral communication users. (Contains…