Word learning better in deaf children who receive cochlear implants by age 13 months
Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 17:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Researcher report that deaf children's word-learning skill is strongly affected by early auditory experience, whether that experience was through normal means or with a cochlear implant. Children who received an implant by age 13 months performed similarly to normal-hearing counterparts while children who received a cochlear implant later performed, on average, more poorly than their normal-hearing peers.