Les capacités verbales et visuo-spatiales en mémoire de travail d’enfants sourds munis d’un implant cochléaire comparés à leurs pairs entendants

Abstract

This research aims to study the verbal and visuo-spatial working memory of deaf children with IC. Deaf children with cochlear implant (CI) and hearing children had to memorize pictures (verbal modality) or locations of points in a grid (visuo-spatial modality) presented in various conditions: alone, with sound and / or Cued Speech. For the two groups, recall in visuo-spatial modality is higher than in verbal modality. Surprisingly, Cued Speech, and more especially in the verbal modality- doesn’t give any help to improve the deaf children performances. Individual performances of deaf children show diverse patterns. Keywords: Cochlear Implant, Verbal and visuo-spatial working memory, Cued Speech, deaf and hearing children