Abstract:Children with hearing loss (HL) show poorer word-learning skills than children with normal hearing (NH). The goal of this study was to test the effect of retrieval practice on word learning. Twenty-six children with NH, 16 children who were hard of hearing, and 14 children who were deaf learned new words in no retrieval, immediate, and spaced retrieval conditions. Linear mixed-effect models revealed that learning condition and hearing status predicted 49% of the variance in word recognition and 15% in word rec… Show more
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