What is it about?
This study showed that despite early bilateral cochlear implantation, children with bilateral CIs are at risk for delayed vocabulary growth due to pre‐implantation severe–profound hearing impairment. Vocabulary composition in vocabularies of 1–400 words reflects noun dominance over verbs, adjectives and grammatical word types. Maternal education and residual hearing with hearing aids before implantation have main effects on early vocabulary growth.
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Why is it important?
Children fitted early with bilateral CIs and their families need to be provided with timely and targeted early intervention for vocabulary acquisition in order to reduce the effects of delayed vocabulary skills on later outcomes.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure. Again I had the possibility to work with co-authors with whom I have had a very rewarding collaboration for several years.
Taina Välimaa
University of Oulu, Research Unit of Logopedics and Child Language Research Center, Finland
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This page is a summary of: Early vocabulary development in children with bilateral cochlear implants, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, June 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12322.
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