Davies School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.
Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE.
J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2023 Oct 4;66(10):3925-3939. doi: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00096. Epub 2023 Aug 17.
This study compares responses of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) who use spoken language with responses of children who have typical hearing on a repeated word association task to evaluate lexical-semantic organization.
This study included 109 participants in early kindergarten or who had completed first grade. The younger group included 30 children with typical hearing, 22 with hearing aids, and 21 with cochlear implants. The older group included 16 children with typical hearing, nine with hearing aids, and 11 with cochlear implants. Children were asked to give a word associated with 24 stimuli words. Responses were coded according to their relation to the target.
An analysis of variance revealed that older children, regardless of hearing status, produced more semantically related responses to prompts than younger children. Children in the younger DHH group differed from children with typical hearing in their production of non-semantically related responses: They produced errored responses at higher rates.
This preliminary data may indicate an early deficit in recognition of semantic relations between words for children who are DHH and provides a basis for continued longitudinal study of changes in lexical-semantic organization.
本研究通过重复词汇联想任务比较使用口语的聋儿和重听儿童与具有典型听力的儿童的反应，以评估词汇语义组织。
本研究包括 109 名幼儿园早期或已完成一年级的参与者。年轻组包括 30 名具有典型听力的儿童、22 名佩戴助听器的儿童和 21 名植入人工耳蜗的儿童。年长组包括 16 名具有典型听力的儿童、9 名佩戴助听器的儿童和 11 名植入人工耳蜗的儿童。要求儿童给出与 24 个刺激词相关的词。根据与目标的关系对反应进行编码。
方差分析显示，无论听力状况如何，年龄较大的儿童比年龄较小的儿童对提示词产生更多语义相关的反应。年轻的 DHH 组的儿童在产生非语义相关反应方面与具有典型听力的儿童不同：他们以更高的比率产生错误反应。
这些初步数据可能表明，对于 DHH 儿童来说，他们在识别单词之间的语义关系方面存在早期缺陷，并为进一步对词汇语义组织的变化进行纵向研究提供了基础。
