چکیده:
Objectives: Phonemic awareness skills have a significant impact on children speech and language. The purpose of this study was investigating the phonemic awareness skills of children with cochlear implant and normal hearing peers in primary school.
Methods: phonemic awareness subscales of phonological awareness test were administered to 30 children with cochlear implantation at the first to sixth grades of primary school and 30 children with normal hearing who were matched in age with cochlear implant group. All of children were between 6 to 11 years old. Children with cochlear implant had at least 1 to 2 years of implant experience and they were over 5 years when they receive implantation. Children with cochlear implant were selected from Special education centers in Tehran and children with normal hearing were recruited from primary schools in Tehran. The phonemic awareness skills were assessed in both groups.
Results: The results showed that the Mean scores of phonemic awareness skills in cochlear implant children were significantly lower than children with normal hearing (P<.0001).
Discussion: children with cochlear implant, despite Cochlear implantation prosthesis, had lower performance in phonemic awareness when compared with normal hearing children. Therefore, due to importance of phonemic awareness skills in learning of literacy skills, and defects of these skills in children with cochlear implant, these skills should be assessed carefully in children with cochlear implant and rehabilitative interventions should be considered.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The purpose of this study was investigating the phonemic awareness skills of children with cochlear implant and normal hearing peers in primary school.
Methods: Phonemic awareness subscales of phonological awareness test were administered to 30 children with cochlear implantation at the first to sixth grades of primary school and 30 children with normal hearing who were matched in age with cochlear implant group.
Results: The results showed that the Mean scores of phonemic awareness skills in cochlear implant children were significantly lower than children with normal hearing (p <.
Individual differences in age at implant, duration of CIs and phonological development were all strongly associated with progress in phonemic skills and reading achievement in cochlear implants children for the deaf implanted children (1).
Discussion The main aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the phonemic awareness in children with cochlear implant and normal hearing children who were in primary school.
Also results of Table 3 showed that children with cochlear implant have lower performance in comparison with normal hearing children in all subscales of phonemic awareness skills(1, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 23, 24).
In fact, it can be argued that there is a significant difference in phonemic awareness skills between the children with cochlear implant and normal hearing children.
Conclusion Generally the results of this study showed that phonemic awareness skills in Children with Cochlear Implant are lower than normal hearing children.
A Comparative Study OF Performance of Normal and Cochlear Implanted Children in Two Phonological Awareness Tests.