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Word awareness in hearing-impaired children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Gloria M. Gartner ,
Sandra E. Trehub  and
Sherri Mackay Soroka
Gloria M. Gartner*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
Sandra E. Trehub*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Sherri Mackay Soroka*
Affiliation:
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
*
Sandra E. Trehub, Centre for Research in Human Development, University of Toronto, Erindale Campus, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
Sandra E. Trehub, Centre for Research in Human Development, University of Toronto, Erindale Campus, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
Sandra E. Trehub, Centre for Research in Human Development, University of Toronto, Erindale Campus, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
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Abstract

Normally hearing children (aged 4–10) and hearing-impaired children (aged 6–14) were tested on word awareness skills, such as the distinction between words and their referents, and their ability to provide explicit definitions of word. Older children performed significantly better than younger children, and normally hearing children performed significantly better than hearing-impaired children. However, orally educated children with mild or moderate hearing losses did not perform better than children with severe or profound losses. Instead, hearingimpaired children exhibited marked metalinguistic deficits, regardless of their degree of hearing loss. Finally, bimodally educated children performed significantly worse than orally educated children on the metalinguistic tasks of the present study. The implications of these findings for educational instruction are discussed.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 61 - 73
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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