Word Learning in Children with Hearing Loss

1-2 out of every 1000 children

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<p>Cochlear implants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cochlear implants stimulate the auditory nerves inside the cochlea with electrical impulses. They do not restore hearing, but they provide children with a sensation of sound.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Audiological factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children with normal hearing had a larger vocabulary size than those with hearing loss.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>It is a method used for investigating the ability of infants to discriminate between stimuli by measuring their preferential looking times.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sample included 20 children with cochlear implants at 22-33 months old with 1-6 months of CI use and 48 infants with normal hearing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Length of time to habituate to a visual stimulus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deaf infants were slower to habituate to a visual stimulus and demonstrated a lower look-away rate than hearing infants. However, when familiarized with a common pattern, they showed dishabituation. Infants with cochlear implants had reduced discrimination of stress patterns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Audiovisual association refers to how we map sounds and disambiguate motion stimuli in noisy environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon demonstrating the interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. It occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. This highlights how visual input can influence our perception of auditory information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Multimodal perception refers to how our senses work together to help us perceive our world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study involved two groups: one group of children aged 5-14 years old who had been profoundly deaf since birth and had at least one year of cochlear implant experience, and another group of age-matched normal hearing children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Participants were asked to watch and listen to audiovisual stimuli, and to state the perceived syllable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children with normal hearing perceived both the unimodal and congruent bimodal stimuli reliably, correctly reporting the perceived syllables in the majority of trials. However, with the incongruent audiovisual stimuli (McGurk test), performance was more variable. Some reported the fused sound, some reported the incongruent sound, and some reported both inconsistently. This suggests that children with CI (deaf) demonstrate differences in integration and processing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Preferential Looking Paradigm is an experimental method used to measure infants' and toddlers' spontaneous looking and listening behaviors towards visual and auditory stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children are presented with two pictures and tested to see if they look at the correct picture when a word is said. The children go through learning trials where they are asked to identify the correct picture. If they remember what they learned, they will look at the correct picture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study aimed to investigate word learning in deaf children with cochlear implants using the intermodal preferential looking paradigm. They examined children's ability to learn two novel word-novel object pairings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study included 25 prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants between 21 and 40 months old who received implants before the age of 2. They also included 23 12-month-old, 23 15-month-old, 25 18-month-old, 28 21-month-old, and 25 age-matched controls with normal hearing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Normally hearing children began to show word learning ability around 18 months of age and were able to effectively map words to objects by 21 months. Children with cochlear implants who were implanted slightly older (16-21.4 months) struggled with object mapping, while those implanted earlier demonstrated performance similar to children with normal hearing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shape bias is the tendency of infants, children, and even adults to generalize information about objects based on their shapes rather than their colors, materials, sizes, or textures when learning nouns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children typically develop shape bias around 18 months of age and older.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Perry et al. study aimed to investigate whether children with hearing loss demonstrate a shape bias as they generate novel words, specifically exploring how children with hearing loss generalize novel names to objects of the same shape.</p> Signup and view all the answers