Development of speech intelligibility and narrative abilities and their interrelationship three and five years after paediatric cochlear implantation

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Huttunen, Kerttu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Comprehensibility; Hearing impairment; Hearing loss; Story grammar; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NARRATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STORYTELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COMPREHENSION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56549096874     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020802322619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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