Fernández-García Laura, Maurno Nahuel Gioiosa, Phillips-Silver Jessica, González María Teresa Daza
Department of Psychology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.
CIBIS Research Center, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2025 Sep 16;30(4):469-480. doi: 10.1093/jdsade/enaf019.
Although previous studies have suggested that language deprivation may affect the development of executive functions (EFs), there are no assessment tools adapted to the language needs of deaf-and-hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. The present study had two objectives: (1) to examine the feasibility of the Executive Brain Battery in assessing 40 prelingually deaf-and-hard-of-hearing children between 6 and 12 years, and (2) to explore whether some sociodemographic and clinical variables could be associated with the performance of deaf children. The results showed that all tasks included in the Executive Brain Battery were practicable for more than 75% of participants, with the decision-making task being the only one that demonstrated an improvement in the performance of children between 6-8 and 9-12 years of age. Moreover, the 6-8 years group displayed a sex effect in inhibition and decision-making tasks. However, this effect disappears in the 9-12 years group, which showed only a negative effect of cochlear implants on the theory of mind task.
尽管先前的研究表明，语言剥夺可能会影响执行功能（EFs）的发展，但目前尚无适用于聋哑和重听（DHH）儿童语言需求的评估工具。本研究有两个目标：（1）检验执行脑电池组评估40名6至12岁语前聋哑和重听儿童的可行性，（2）探讨一些社会人口统计学和临床变量是否与聋哑儿童的表现相关。结果表明，执行脑电池组中的所有任务对超过75%的参与者来说都是可行的，决策任务是唯一一项显示6至8岁和9至12岁儿童表现有所改善的任务。此外，6至8岁组在抑制和决策任务中表现出性别效应。然而，这种效应在9至12岁组中消失了，该组仅显示人工耳蜗对心理理论任务有负面影响。
