Language and academic outcomes of children with cochlear implants in an inclusive setting: Evidence from 18 years of data.
Cochlear Implants Int
; 24(3): 130-143, 2023 05.
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| ID: mdl-36670525
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This study examined outcomes in core and pragmatic language, receptive vocabulary, and academic skills in children with cochlear implants (CIs) enrolled in an inclusive educational setting.METHODS:
Eighty-eight children with CIs were included in the analyses. Data was collected over an 18-year period, at six-month intervals for core language, vocabulary, and pragmatic skills and in kindergarten and second grade for academic skills. Kaplan-Meier analyses were used to estimate the median time to achieve age-appropriate scores.RESULTS:
Results indicated the median time to obtain age-appropriate skills for children with CIs enrolled in our program was less than three years for core language and pragmatic skills and less than two years for vocabulary. Over 90% of the sample had academic skills in the average range in both kindergarten and second grade.DISCUSSION:
This study shares outcomes of children with CIs who received consistent and intensive transdisciplinary intervention in an inclusive educational setting, revealing the trajectory required to obtain age-appropriate skills, when compared to normative data.CONCLUSION:
Results were favorable, indicating that children with CIs in an inclusive program, with intensive intervention and strong language and social models, can develop skills commensurate with typically developing peers across a variety of core skills.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Implantes Cocleares
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Implante Coclear
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Surdez
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cochlear Implants Int
Assunto da revista:
AUDIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos