Cognitive and linguistic skills in Swedish children with cochlear implants - Measures of accuracy and latency as indicators of development

Malin Wass; Tina Ibertsson; Björn Lyxell; Birgitta SahlÉn; Mathias HÄllgren; Birgitta Larsby; Elina MÄki-Torkko

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00680.x

Cognitive and linguistic skills in Swedish children with cochlear implants - Measures of accuracy and latency as indicators of development

Malin Wass^*, Tina Ibertsson, Björn Lyxell, Birgitta SahlÉn, Mathias HÄllgren, Birgitta Larsby, Elina MÄki-Torkko

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The purpose of the present study was to examine working memory (WM) capacity, lexical access and phonological skills in 19 children with cochlear implants (CI) (5;7-13;4 years of age) attending grades 0-2, 4, 5 and 6 and to compare their performance with 56 children with normal hearing. Their performance was also studied in relation to demographic factors. The findings indicate that children with CI had visuospatial WM capacities equivalent to the comparison group. They had lower performance levels on most of the other cognitive tests. Significant differences between the groups were not found in all grades and a number of children with CI performed within 1 SD of the mean of their respective grade-matched comparison group on most of the cognitive measures. The differences between the groups were particularly prominent in tasks of phonological WM. The results are discussed with respect to the effects of cochlear implants on cognitive development.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	559-576
Number of pages	18
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
Volume	49
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00680.x
Publication status	Published - Dec 2008

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Cognitive and linguistic skills in Swedish children with cochlear implants - Measures of accuracy and latency as indicators of development. / Wass, Malin; Ibertsson, Tina; Lyxell, Björn; SahlÉn, Birgitta; HÄllgren, Mathias; Larsby, Birgitta; MÄki-Torkko, Elina.

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