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Investigation of Early Literacy Skills in Preschool Children with Deaf and Hard of Hearing
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Pistav-Akmese, Pelin; Sezgin, Destina; Ögüt, Fatih – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
In this study, it is aimed to compare the early literacy skills of children with cochlear implants with 60-72 months of preschool and/or special education to the results of children with normal hearing. For this purpose, the following questions were sought. In this study, "Demographic Form" containing the general information of volunteer…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Language Development in Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Children with Additional Disabilities: Type Matters!
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Cupples, L.; Ching, T. Y. C.; Leigh, G.; Martin, L.; Gunnourie, M.; Button, L.; Marnane, V.; Hou, S.; Zhang, V.; Flynn, C.; Van Buynder, P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2018
Background: This study examined language development in young children with hearing loss and different types of additional disabilities (ADs). Method: A population-based cohort of 67 children who were enrolled in the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment study took part. Language ability was directly assessed at 3 and 5 years…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Disabilities
Enduring Advantages of Early Cochlear Implantation for Spoken Language Development
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Geers, Anne E.; Nicholas, Johanna G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this article, the authors sought to determine whether the precise age of implantation (AOI) remains an important predictor of spoken language outcomes in later childhood for those who received a cochlear implant (CI) between 12 and 38 months of age. Relative advantages of receiving a bilateral CI after age 4.5 years, better…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
Phonological Awareness and Decoding Skills in Deaf Adolescents
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Gravenstede, L. – Deafness and Education International, 2009
This study investigated the phonological awareness skills of a group of deaf adolescents and how these skills correlated with decoding skills (single word and non-word reading) and receptive vocabulary. Twenty, congenitally profoundly deaf adolescents with at least average nonverbal cognitive skills were tested on a range of phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Deafness, Phonological Awareness
Intervention Procedures to Accelerate Rate of Learning.
Lee, Barbara B. – 1986
The paper reports on a study of the rate of language learning of 12 children aged 2 to 10 with severe to profound bilateral hearing losses. Intended to help deaf children learn spoken language at the same rate as average hearing Ss, the intervention stressed three qualities of linguistic information: (1) clarity, (2) appropriateness, and (3)…
Descriptors: Cued Speech, Deafness, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Communication Mode as a Factor in the Performance of Hearing-Impaired Children on a Standardized Receptive Vocabulary Test.
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Crittenden, Jerry B.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Deaf children (N=52) were administered a videotaped presentation of a vocabulary test under one of five conditions: Total Communication (TC) with audio; TC without audio; Manual Communication (MC) with no mouth movement; Oral Communication (OC) with audio; and OC without audio. Modes using MC or TC yielded performances significantly superior to OC…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Elementary Education