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- Title
Spelling in Children With Cochlear Implants: Evidence of Underlying Processing Differences.
- Authors
Bell, Nicola; Angwin, Anthony J; Wilson, Wayne J; Arnott, Wendy L
- Abstract
This study compared the spelling skills and sub-skills of young children with cochlear implants (CIs) who use spoken language only (n = 14) with those of a same-aged typically hearing (TH) control group (n = 30). Spelling accuracy was assessed using irregular and nonsense word stimuli. Error and regression analyses were conducted to provide insight into the phonological and orthographic spelling strategies used by each group. Results indicated that children with CIs were as accurate as the TH group. However, misspellings made by the CI group were less phonologically plausible, and while nonword spelling accuracy was related to letter-sound knowledge for the TH group, the same relationship was non-significant for the CI group. Hence, despite demonstrating a similar degree of overall spelling success to TH children, children with CIs appeared to apply phonics skills less effectively.
- Subjects
ABILITY; COCHLEAR implants; ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; LANGUAGE acquisition; PHONETICS; REGRESSION analysis; TRAINING; PHONOLOGICAL awareness; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 2, p161
- ISSN
1081-4159
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/deafed/eny035