9 research outputs found

    Development of Implanted Deaf Children’s Conversational Skills

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    International audiencePrevious studies of preverbal development have highlighted the recurrent difficulties experienced by deaf children in acquiring knowledge of the social rules and social skills pertaining to discourse. We expected cochlear implants in children with bilateral profound deafness to improve their use of verbal language, so that their communication skill profile resembled that of younger, hearing children. Using conversation samples taken from videos recorded every 6 months over a 2-year period, we monitored the development of communication skills in a group of 18 prelingually profoundly deaf children (mean implantation age, 3 years and 5 months). Results corroborated our hypothesis that the overall communication performances of children with cochlear implants improve, both quantitatively and qualitatively, as early as the first year post-implantation.Il ressort de travaux antérieurs que les enfants sourds ont des difficultés à s’approprier les conventions et règles implicites régissant l’utilisation du langage. De ce fait, la pose d’un implant cochléaire, permettant à des enfants atteints de surdité profonde d’accéder au langage verbal, devrait se traduire par un recours plus systématique au langage verbal. Par ailleurs nous faisons l’hypothèse que les actes de langage devraient progressivement tendre vers les profils présentés par les enfants entendants plus jeunes. Dix-huit enfants prélinguaux implantés (moyenne d’âge à l’implantation : 3 ; 5) ont été filmés, tous les six mois pendant deux ans. Les résultats obtenus sont en adéquation avec les hypothèses posées, dès la première année, les enfants tirent profit de la pose d’un implant cochléaire; les échanges conversationnels médiatisés par le langage verbal s’intensifient dès la première année suivant l’implantation ; de la même façon la répartition des actes de langage se modifie

    Development of Implanted Deaf Children’s Conversational Skills

    No full text
    International audiencePrevious studies of preverbal development have highlighted the recurrent difficulties experienced by deaf children in acquiring knowledge of the social rules and social skills pertaining to discourse. We expected cochlear implants in children with bilateral profound deafness to improve their use of verbal language, so that their communication skill profile resembled that of younger, hearing children. Using conversation samples taken from videos recorded every 6 months over a 2-year period, we monitored the development of communication skills in a group of 18 prelingually profoundly deaf children (mean implantation age, 3 years and 5 months). Results corroborated our hypothesis that the overall communication performances of children with cochlear implants improve, both quantitatively and qualitatively, as early as the first year post-implantation.Il ressort de travaux antérieurs que les enfants sourds ont des difficultés à s’approprier les conventions et règles implicites régissant l’utilisation du langage. De ce fait, la pose d’un implant cochléaire, permettant à des enfants atteints de surdité profonde d’accéder au langage verbal, devrait se traduire par un recours plus systématique au langage verbal. Par ailleurs nous faisons l’hypothèse que les actes de langage devraient progressivement tendre vers les profils présentés par les enfants entendants plus jeunes. Dix-huit enfants prélinguaux implantés (moyenne d’âge à l’implantation : 3 ; 5) ont été filmés, tous les six mois pendant deux ans. Les résultats obtenus sont en adéquation avec les hypothèses posées, dès la première année, les enfants tirent profit de la pose d’un implant cochléaire; les échanges conversationnels médiatisés par le langage verbal s’intensifient dès la première année suivant l’implantation ; de la même façon la répartition des actes de langage se modifie

    Emotional Speech Comprehension in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implant

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    International audienceAbstract We examined the understanding of emotional speech by deaf children with cochlear implant (CI). Thirty deaf children with CI and 60 typically developing controls (matched on chronological age or hearing age) performed a computerized task featuring emotional prosody, either embedded in a discrepant context or without any context at all. Across the task conditions, the deaf participants with CI scored lower on the prosody-bases responses than their peers matched on chronological age or hearing age. Additionally, we analyzed the effect of age on determining correct prosody-based responses and we found that hearing age was a predictor of the accuracy of prosody-based responses. We discuss these findings with respect to delay in prosody and intermodal processing. Future research should aim to specify the nature of the cognitive processes that would be required to process prosody

    Emotional Speech Comprehension in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implant

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    We examined the understanding of emotional speech by deaf children with cochlear implant (CI). Thirty deaf children with CI and 60 typically developing controls (matched on chronological age or hearing age) performed a computerized task featuring emotional prosody, either embedded in a discrepant context or without any context at all. Across the task conditions, the deaf participants with CI scored lower on the prosody-bases responses than their peers matched on chronological age or hearing age. Additionally, we analyzed the effect of age on determining correct prosody-based responses and we found that hearing age was a predictor of the accuracy of prosody-based responses. We discuss these findings with respect to delay in prosody and intermodal processing. Future research should aim to specify the nature of the cognitive processes that would be required to process prosody
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