The prelexical development in children implanted by 16 months compared with normal hearing children

Auditory, speech and language development in young children with cochlear implants compared with children with normal hearing

“…The population presented in this paper is identical to the one described in the recent publication by Schramm et al [2]. Two groups of children, five with normal hearing (NH; three females, two males) and five with cochlear implants (CIs; two females, three males), were included in the second part of the study.…”

“…For this reason, parental interviews and questionnaires are suitable tools to collect information on the expressive and receptive language development in this group of children [5]. In our article about the pre-lexical development, we mentioned that hearing skills play an important role for the beginning of the canonical level [2]. Young children with CIs undergo the same early stages of language development as their NH peers and develop consonant phoneme production in a qualitatively similar way.…”

“…In regard to children with German as their mother tongue, data on early speech and language development in children who were implanted under the age of two are still spare. Four recent publications, one case study [1] and three group studies [2][3][4] focused on speech development in German speaking children with cochlear implants.…”

“…In our follow-up assessment presented here, we aimed to find out (1) if the auditory development in children with CIs compared with NH children is different or equal, (2) if there is a rapid growth in the receptive and expressive vocabulary in both groups and (3) if there is a clear time period in which children with CIs come close to their NH peers. The primary focus of this study was not on the effect of the 2nd implant but on the outcomes of speech and language development especially the auditory development and the receptive and expressive language skills of the ten children of the study group.…”

Assessment of Speech Development in Children with Cochlear Implants in Republic of Macedonia Using Monosyllabic-Troche-Polysyllabic Test (Closed-Set)

“…Speech improvement and development after cochlear implantation has been confirmed by numerous studies which results suggest that cochlear implant increases speech reception and perception skills to a degree that is not possible to be achieved with amplifying hearing aids [6][7][8][9][10].…”