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Cognitive development in children with cochlear implants: Relations to reading and communication

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Pages S47-S52 | Received 26 Jun 2008, Published online: 07 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The purpose of the present article is to present an overview of a set of studies conducted in our own laboratory on cognitive and communicative development in children with cochlear implants (CI). The results demonstrate that children with CIs perform at significantly lower levels on the majority of the cognitive tasks. The exceptions to this trend are tasks with relatively lower demands on phonological processing. A fairly high proportion of the children can reach a level of reading comprehension that matches hearing children, despite the fact that they have relatively poor phonological skills. General working memory capacity is further correlated with the type of questions asked in a referential communication task. The results are discussed with respect to issues related to education and rehabilitation.

Abbreviations
CI=

Cochlear implant

Abbreviations
CI=

Cochlear implant

Sumario

El propósito de este artículo es presentar una perspectiva de una serie de estudios realizados en nuestro laboratorio sobre el desarrollo cognitivo y comunicativo de niños con implante coclear (IC). Los resultados demuestran que los niños con IC rinden en niveles significativamente más bajos en la mayoría de las tareas cognitivas. Las excepciones a esta tendencia son las tareas que tienen una demanda relativamente menor en el procesamiento fonológico. Una buena proporción de los niños pueden alcanzar niveles de comprensión de la lectura equiparables a los de niños oyentes, a pesar del hecho de que tienen habilidades fonológicas relativamente pobres. La capacidad de memoria general se correlaciona además con el tipo de preguntas presentadas en una tarea referencial de comunicación. Se discuten los resultados con respecto a lo relacionado con la educación y la rehabilitación.

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