Phonological Awareness and Working Memory in Mandarin-Speaking Preschool-Aged Children with Cochlear Implants

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Hao; Ma, Wen; Ding, Hongwei; Peng, Gang; Zhang, Yang
Titel	Phonological Awareness and Working Memory in Mandarin-Speaking Preschool-Aged Children with Cochlear Implants
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65 (2022) 11, S.4485-4497 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhang, Hao) ORCID (Ding, Hongwei) ORCID (Peng, Gang) ORCID (Zhang, Yang)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Assistive Technology; Hearing Impairments; Phonological Awareness; Short Term Memory; Preschool Children; Mandarin Chinese; Deafness; Child Development; Cognitive Ability; Language Skills; Foreign Countries; China (Shanghai) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Kindesentwicklung; Denkfähigkeit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Ausland
Abstract	Purpose: Cochlear implants (CIs) provide significant benefits for profoundly deaf children in their language and cognitive development. However, it remains unclear whether Mandarin-speaking young children with early implantation can develop age-equivalent phonological awareness (PA) skill and working memory (WM) capacity as their normal hearing (NH) peers. The aim of this study was to investigate PA and WM in preschool-aged children with or without hearing loss and to examine the relationship between the two basic skills. Method: The data were collected from 16 Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with CIs and 16 age-matched children with NH. All preschool participants were instructed to complete four phonological detection tasks and four digit span tasks. Linear mixed-effects modeling was performed to evaluate PA and WM performances between two groups across different tasks. Results: CI preschoolers showed comparable performances on par with NH controls in phonological detections and visual digit spans. In addition, Pearson correlation analysis revealed a positive relationship between phonological detections and auditory digit spans in preschool-aged children with CIs. Conclusion: With early implantation, the congenitally deaf children were capable of developing age-appropriate PA skill and WM capacity, which have practical implications for aural rehabilitation in this special pediatric population. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01