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Figuur 1. Individuele standaardscores van de SH-groep op de subtests. De mediaanscores per subtest worden weergeven door een • (vak A: • ≤ 5.5 / vak B: 7 ≥ • > 5.5 / vak C: • > 7).
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Introduction: It is well known that a severe hearing loss has a negative infl uence on the language development of children. However, due to the universal newborn hearing screening and cochlear implantation at an early age, the language level of hearing impaired children is closer to that of hearing peers than previously possible. As a result, ther...
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Non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss (NSHL) is a common disorder affecting approximately 1 in 500 newborns. This type of hearing loss is extremely heterogeneous and includes over 100 loci. Mutations in the GJB2 gene have been implicated in about half of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL) cases, making this the...
The ability to distinguish lies from sincere false statements requires understanding a speaker's communicative intentions and is argued to develop through linguistic interaction. We tested whether this ability was delayed in 26 children with severe-to-profound hearing loss who, based on vocabulary size, were thought to have relatively limited acces...
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Aim
The aim of this study was to examine long-term effects of moderate to severe congenital hearing impairment (MSCHI) at an age when language development is completed, i.e., in adults.
Method
We studied language performance in Dutch in 10 normal-hearing (NH) adults and 20 adults with MSCHI, using analysis of elicited language samples on morphosyntactic correctness and syntactic complexity.
Results
The data show long-term effects of MSCHI in the domain of morphosyntax: MSCHI may lead to a persisting lower level of mastery of the determiner use constraint and a lower level of performance in using bound morphemes and adverbs, compared to NH adults. In the MSCHI group, morphosyntactic correctness is related to degree of congenital hearing impairment, and not to age. For syntactic complexity, no group differences were found.
Conclusion
The study results give a language-specific description of aspects at risk when language is acquired with an inferior auditory input. MSCHI especially may lead to problems in the use of low salient bound and free morphemes, as well as to problems with aspects of the language that are relatively complex. Thus, the consequences of MSCHI may remain after language development is completed.