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>They stimulate the auditory nerves inside the cochlea with electrical impulses. This doesn't restore hearing, but children get 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

<p>They can segment words using the predominant stress pattern of their native language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method used to investigate the ability of infants to discriminate between stimuli by measuring their preferential looking times.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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>Look-away rate during habituation</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. When they are familiarized with a common input pattern, they show dishabituation. Infants with cochlear implants had reduced discrimination of stress patterns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>A perceptual phenomenon demonstrating an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion 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. Visual input can conflict and misrepresent what we are hearing aurally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>There was a group of children 5-14 years old who had been profoundly deaf since birth and had a minimum of 1 year of cochlear implant experience, and a 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. The congruent audiovisual stimuli /pa/pa/ and /ka/ka/ were reported correctly as &quot;pa&quot; and &quot;ka&quot;, respectively, on 10 of 10 trials by 20 of 35 children. The study found that children with normal hearing reliably perceived both the unimodal and congruent bimodal stimuli. However, children with cochlear implants exhibited idiosyncratic performance on the incongruent 'pa/ka' (McGurk test), demonstrating inconsistent integration of auditory and visual information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An experimental methodology employed by researchers 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 shown two pictures and tested to see if they refer to the right picture when a word is said. Children go through a series of learning trials and are asked which is which. If they remember what they learnt, they will look at the right one.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They investigated word learning in deaf children with cochlear implants. Using the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, children were tested on their ability to learn two novel-word/novel-object pairings. The study involved 25 prelingually deaf children (21- to 40-month-olds) who received cochlear implants prior to 2 years of age, and 23 12-month-olds, 23 15-month-olds, 25 18-month-olds, 28 21-month-olds, and 25 age-matched controls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Normal 12-month-olds couldn't tell, 18-month-olds start to show learning, and by 21 months children are able to learn mapping using this paradigm. Children who had implants slightly older (16-21.4 months) struggled with object mapping. Those who had it implanted earlier were better at it; their performance was similar to normal hearing children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The shape bias is the tendency of infants and children (as well as adults) to generalize information about objects by their shapes, rather than their colors, materials, sizes, or textures when learning nouns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>18 months and older.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children with hearing loss were significantly less likely than age-matched typically hearing children and vocabulary-matched typically hearing children to generalize novel names to objects of the same shape.</p> Signup and view all the answers