Is age at implant the only factor that counts? The influence of working memory on lexical and grammatical development in children with cochlear implants

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 506-515

  Willstedt Svensson, Ursula ^a   Löfqvist, Anders ^a   Almqvist, Bengt ^a   Sahlén, Birgitta ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Congenitally deaf children; Non word repetition; Novel word learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COGNITION; FEMALE; GRAMMATICAL DEVELOPMENT; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LEXICAL DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TIME; WORKING MEMORY;

ABNORMALITIES; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COGNITION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10644228558     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020400050065     Document Type: Article

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