Predicting social functioning in children with a cochlear implant and in normal-hearing children: The role of emotion regulation

Wiefferink, Carin H.; Rieffe, Carolien; Ketelaar, Lizet; Frijns, Johan H. M.

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2012.02.065

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“…Our study was the first to utilize a longitudinal design to examine social competence in children with CIs. 25,38 The results strongly supported the dynamic systems model, which posits that deficits in one area of development have cascading effects on other areas. 15,17,18 In particular, children with hearing loss, who have delays in language, may be at increased risk for delays in social competence and related developmental domains.…”

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Comparisons of Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Competence

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2016

Otology &Amp; Neurotology

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Objective To evaluate the longitudinal effects of cochlear implantation (CIs) on young, deaf children’s social competence over 5 years of implant use and compare their social skills to those of same-aged, hearing peers. Study Design Prospective, longitudinal between- and within-subjects design, with assessments completed 3 times over 5 years. Setting This study was conducted at 6 cochlear implant centers and 2 preschools that enrolled both CI and hearing children. Patients Parents of 132 children with CIs and 67 age-matched hearing controls completed the study measures. Children were between 5 and 9 years of age at the first time point. Interventions Cochlear implantation and speech-language therapy. Main Outcome Measures 3 subscales were drawn from 2 standardized measures of behavioral and social functioning, the Behavioral Assessment Scale for Children (Adaptability, Social Skills) and the Social Skills Rating System (Social Skills). A latent social competence variable was created using multiple subscales, which was modeled over time. Results Parent data indicated that children with CIs were delayed in comparison to their hearing peers on the social competence latent variable across all time points. Further, there was minimal evidence of “catch-up” growth over this 5-year period. Conclusion Children with CIs continued to experience delays in social competence after several years of implant use. Despite documented gains in oral language, deficits in social competence remained. To date, no interventions for children with CIs have targeted these social and behavioral skills. Thus, interventions that address the functioning of the “whole child” following cochlear implantation are needed.

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Comparisons of Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Competence

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2016

Otology &Amp; Neurotology

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“…Our results show equal levels of social competence in children with CI and NH children, which is in contrast with a study by Wiefferink, Rieffe, Ketelaar, and Frijns that did note a difference on the same measure of social competence in favor of NH children. 28 The sample of NH children included in the Wiefferink et al study was slightly older than in the current study, which could explain this different outcome as NH children become increasingly socially skilled with age. 29 Contrary to our expectations, the empathic behavior of children with CI was not impaired.…”

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Social competence and empathy in young children with cochlear implants and with normal hearing

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“…Research by Wiefferink et al (2012) suggests that the emotion identification issues in deaf children may extend to social functioning. Across a variety of contexts, children with CIs are less proficient in emotion regulation and social competence than NH controls.…”

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Benefits of Music Training for Perception of Emotional Speech Prosody in Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants

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Objectives:Children who use cochlear implants (CIs) have characteristic pitch processing deficits leading to impairments in music perception and in understanding emotional intention in spoken language. Music training for normal-hearing children has previously been shown to benefit perception of emotional prosody. The purpose of the present study was to assess whether deaf children who use CIs obtain similar benefits from music training. We hypothesized that music training would lead to gains in auditory processing and that these gains would transfer to emotional speech prosody perception.Design:Study participants were 18 child CI users (ages 6 to 15). Participants received either 6 months of music training (i.e., individualized piano lessons) or 6 months of visual art training (i.e., individualized painting lessons). Measures of music perception and emotional speech prosody perception were obtained pre-, mid-, and post-training. The Montreal Battery for Evaluation of Musical Abilities was used to measure five different aspects of music perception (scale, contour, interval, rhythm, and incidental memory). The emotional speech prosody task required participants to identify the emotional intention of a semantically neutral sentence under audio-only and audiovisual conditions.Results:Music training led to improved performance on tasks requiring the discrimination of melodic contour and rhythm, as well as incidental memory for melodies. These improvements were predominantly found from mid- to post-training. Critically, music training also improved emotional speech prosody perception. Music training was most advantageous in audio-only conditions. Art training did not lead to the same improvements.Conclusions:Music training can lead to improvements in perception of music and emotional speech prosody, and thus may be an effective supplementary technique for supporting auditory rehabilitation following cochlear implantation.

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Predicting social functioning in children with a cochlear implant and in normal-hearing children: The role of emotion regulation

Cited by 57 publications

References 29 publications

Comparisons of Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Competence

Comparisons of Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Competence

Social competence and empathy in young children with cochlear implants and with normal hearing

Benefits of Music Training for Perception of Emotional Speech Prosody in Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants

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