Using narrative to investigate language skills of children who are deaf and with hard of hearing
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2016
Yazarlar: Pelin PİŞTAV AKMEŞE, İnayet Funda Acarlar
Educational Research and Reviews, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, Journals Indexed İn Eric, 2016, cilt 11, ss 1367-1381
DOI: 10.5897/ERR2016.2865
Özet
<p>The study group consisted of 30 children with cochlear implants (CI) and 30 children with normal</p><p>hearing (NH), whose ages were 4 years and 7 years 11 months. Turkish Test of Early Language</p><p>Development (TEDIL) was used to assess the language skills of the children. Language samples were</p><p>gathered by using Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI). The study results indicated that the</p><p>sum of receptive, expressive and verbal language scores of the children with CI was lower than the</p><p>children with NH and the difference was statistically significant according to TEDIL. It was found that</p><p>mean length of utterance (MLU) and number of different words (NDW) averages among MLU, NDW and</p><p>total number of words (TNW) average scores showed statistically significant differences in all of the</p><p>three stories in favour of the children with NH. However, there was no statistically significant difference</p><p>between two groups except for the A1 story in TNW. It was found that children with CI used case</p><p>suffixes, pronouns, conjunctions among part of speech and verbals which were necessary for creating</p><p>complex sentences less often than the children with NH and the difference between them was</p><p>statistically significant with regard to the occurrence frequency of case suffixes, pronouns, A1 and A3</p><p>stories, A1 story conjunction. Besides, it was observed that the children with CI made more statistically</p><p>significant word omission, morpheme omission and substitution errors than the children with NH. It</p><p>was found that the children who were implanted before the age of 2 scored higher. As a result of</p><p>language sample evaluations, it was stated that TNW scores predicted the ones with CI and MLU and</p><p>NDW scores predicted the children with NH.</p><p>Key word: Deaf and hard of hearing, cochlear implant, narrative, language assessment.</p><p>INTRODUCTION</p><p>Hearing loss,</p>