Comments on “Linguistic Performance of Hard-of-Hearing and Normal-Hearing Children”

1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 820-821
Author(s):  
M. Irene Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Hearing Children

Linguistic Performance of Hard-of-Hearing and Normal-Hearing Children

1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Wilcox ◽  
Henry Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Repetition Task

A repetition task was employed to investigate syntactic patterns of hard-of-hearing children. The subjects were 11 students enrolled in public-school classes for the hard-of-hearing. A matching control group of normal-hearing children was selected from the same schools. It was found that both groups tended to use grammatical constructions rather than nongrammatical approximations. The hard-of-hearing group, however, achieved significantly lower means in each grammatical form tested, and tended to substitute simpler forms. This lower level of performance seemed to represent a difference of degree rather than kind, as the experimental group displayed linguistic performance similar to the control group but showed a general delay in language development.

Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Kristina BOWDRIE ◽  
Rachael Frush HOLT ◽  
Andrew BLANK ◽  
Laura WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Signal ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Lexical Aspect ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Play Session ◽  
Grammatical Morphology ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Semantic Domains

Abstract Grammatical morphology often links small acoustic forms to abstract semantic domains. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have reduced access to the acoustic signal and frequently have delayed acquisition of grammatical morphology (e.g., Tomblin, Harrison, Ambrose, Walker, Oleson & Moeller, 2015). This study investigated the naturalistic use of aspectual morphology in DHH children to determine if they organize this semantic domain as normal hearing (NH) children have been found to do. Thirty DHH children (M = 6;8) and 29 NH children (M = 5;11) acquiring English participated in a free-play session and their tokens of perfective (simple past) and imperfective (-ing) morphology were coded for the lexical aspect of the predicate they marked. Both groups showed established prototype effects, favoring perfective + telic and imperfective + atelic pairings over perfective + atelic and perfective + atelic ones. Thus, despite reduced access to the acoustic signal, this DHH group was unimpaired for aspectual organization.

Does Phonological Complexity Provide a Good Index of Language Disorder in Children With Cochlear Implants?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Céline David ◽  
Laurice Tuller ◽  
Elisabeth Schweitzer ◽  
Emmanuel Lescanne ◽  
Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Good Index ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Phonological Complexity

Purpose Phonological complexity is known to be a good index of developmental language disorder (DLD) in normal-hearing children, who have major difficulties on some complex structures. Some deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) present a profile that evokes DLD, with persistent linguistic difficulties despite good audiological and environmental conditions. However, teasing apart what is related to auditory deficit or to language disorder remains complex. Method We compared the performance of three groups of school-age children, 33 children with CI, 22 with DLD, and 24 with typical development, on a nonword repetition (NWR) task based on phonological complexity. Children with CI were studied regarding their linguistic profile, categorized in four subgroups ranging from excellent to very poor performance. Influence of syllable length and phonological structures on the results of all the children were explored. Results The NWR task correctly distinguished children with DLD from typically developing children, and also children with CI with the poorest linguistic performance from other children with CI. However, most complex phonological structures did not reliably identify children with CI displaying a profile similar to that of children with DLD because these structures were difficult for all of the children with CI. The simplest phonological structures were better at detecting persistent language difficulties in children with CI, as they were challenging only for the children with the poorest language outcomes. Conclusions The most complex phonological structures are not good indices of language disorder in children with CI. Phonological complexity represents a gradient of difficulty that affects normal-hearing and deaf children differently.

Joint Engagement in Deaf and Normal Hearing Children

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary E. Grimley ◽  
David H. Barker ◽  
Lynda-Grace McDonald ◽  
Alexandra L. Quittner
Keyword(s):  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Joint Engagement ◽  
Hearing Children
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