López-Higes Ramón, Gallego Carlos, Martín-Aragoneses María Teresa, Melle Natalia
Complutense University of Madrid,
Complutense University of Madrid.
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2015 Apr;20(2):136-46. doi: 10.1093/deafed/env004. Epub 2015 Mar 3.
This study explores morpho-syntactic reading comprehension in 19 Spanish children who received a cochlear implant (CI) before 24 months of age (early CI [e-CI]) and 19 Spanish children who received a CI after 24 months (late CI [l-CI]). They all were in primary school and were compared to a hearing control (HC) group of 19 children. Tests of perceptual reasoning, working memory, receptive vocabulary, and morpho-syntactic comprehension were used in the assessment. It was observed that while children with l-CI showed a delay, those with e-CI reached a level close to that which was obtained by their control peers in morpho-syntactic comprehension. Thus, results confirm a positive effect of early implantation on morpho-syntactic reading comprehension. Inflectional morphology and simple sentence comprehension were noted to be better in the e-CI group than in the l-CI group. The most important factor in distinguishing between the HC and l-CI groups or the e-CI and l-CI groups was verbal inflectional morphology.
本研究探讨了19名24个月前接受人工耳蜗植入（CI）的西班牙儿童（早期人工耳蜗植入组[e-CI]）和19名24个月后接受人工耳蜗植入的西班牙儿童（晚期人工耳蜗植入组[l-CI]）的形态句法阅读理解能力。他们都在小学就读，并与19名听力正常的对照组（HC）儿童进行了比较。评估中使用了感知推理、工作记忆、接受性词汇和形态句法理解测试。研究发现，虽然晚期人工耳蜗植入组的儿童表现出延迟，但早期人工耳蜗植入组的儿童在形态句法理解方面达到了接近其听力正常同龄对照组的水平。因此，研究结果证实了早期植入对形态句法阅读理解有积极影响。研究还发现，早期人工耳蜗植入组在屈折形态和简单句子理解方面比晚期人工耳蜗植入组更好。区分听力正常对照组与晚期人工耳蜗植入组或早期人工耳蜗植入组与晚期人工耳蜗植入组的最重要因素是动词屈折形态。
