Phonological awareness of Cantonese-speaking pre-school children with cochlear implants

Phonological awareness of Cantonese-speaking pre-school children with cochlear implants

• Tse, Wing Ting University of Hong Kong
• So, Lydia K. H. University of Hong Kong

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 14(1), 73-83, 2012

Informa Healthcare

2012

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AG Child Development & Health

Cantonese Cochlear Implant Hearing Loss Hearing Impairment Phonological Awareness Pre Literacy Deaf Children Chinese Children Spoken Language Perception Dyslexia Hearing Tone Recognition Acquisition Audiology & Speech Language Pathology Linguistics Rehabilitation

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

The study investigated the phonological awareness abilities of Cantonese-speaking pre-schoolers with cochlear implants. Participants were 15 Cantonese-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) aged 3.08-6.10, chronological-age-matched with 15 children with normal hearing. Each participant performed 10 tasks evaluating different levels of phonological awareness abilities and phonological knowledge. The results showed that pre-schoolers with cochlear implants and their normal hearing peers had similar levels of syllable awareness, phoneme awareness and rhyme awareness. However, cochlear implant users showed significantly poorer performance on tone awareness and phonological knowledge tasks than their normal hearing peers. Cantonese-speaking pre-schoolers with cochlear implants were able to develop phonological awareness. However, the cochlear implants might not provide enough tonal information for children with hearing impairment for tonal lexical comprehension. Incomplete speech and language stimulation may affect phonological knowledge development in Cantonese-speaking pre-schoolers with cochlear implants.
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• 10.3109/17549507.2011.604428

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