| Peng SC |
------>authors3_c= ------>paper_class1=1 ------>Impact_Factor=1.734 ------>paper_class3=2 ------>paper_class2=1 ------>vol=130 ------>confirm_bywho=fplee ------>insert_bywho=651091 ------>Jurnal_Rank=20.0 ------>authors4_c= ------>comm_author=1 ------>patent_EDate=None ------>authors5_c= ------>publish_day=1 ------>paper_class2Letter=None ------>page2=597 ------>medlineContent= ------>unit=E0114 ------>insert_date=20071010 ------>iam=4 ------>update_date=None ------>author=??? ------>change_event=4 ------>ISSN=0886-4470 ------>authors_c= ------>score=500 ------>journal_name=Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg ------>paper_name=Consonant production and language skills in Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants. ------>confirm_date=20071011 ------>tch_id=084035 ------>pmid=15148182 ------>page1=592 ------>fullAbstract=OBJECTIVES: To investigate the phonemic inventories of syllable-initial consonants in Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants, assessing the relationship between the children~s mastery levels of consonant production and their receptive and expressive language skills. DESIGN: Descriptive study. SETTING: Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. PATIENTS: The 30 prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants who participated in the study ranged in age from 6 years to 12 years 6 months, and their age at implantation ranged from 2 years 3 months to 10 years 3 months. The average length of device experience was 3 years 7 months (range, 1 year 7 months to 6 years 5 months). None of the children was identified with concomitant learning disabilities. OUTCOME MEASURES: The 21 Mandarin syllable-initial consonants were elicited using a set of 105 pictures. Two language assessment tools were used to evaluate the children~s receptive vocabulary skills as well as their overall receptive and expressive language development. RESULTS: The mean +/- SD score for correct consonant production was 57.9% +/- 19.5%. Regarding the manner of articulation, plosives received the highest average correct percentage whereas nasals, affricates, fricatives, and the lateral approximant /l/ were less frequently correct. The children~s overall percentage of correct scores for consonant production and receptive vocabulary measure were significantly correlated (r = 0.51; P =.005). Additionally, correlation coefficients were significant between the overall score for correct consonant production and both the scores for receptive language measure (r = 0.65; P<.001) and expressive language measure (r = 0.76; P<.001). The participants~ consonant production skills were negatively correlated with age at implantation (r = - 0.46; P =.01) and positively correlated with length of experience with cochlear implant (r = 0.45; P =.02). CONCLUSIONS: Mastery levels of Mandarin syllable-initial consonants remained moderately low in prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants. The present results suggest a significant association between consonant production skills and language development in these children. ------>tmu_sno=None ------>sno=16070 ------>authors2=Weiss AL ------>authors3=Cheung H ------>authors4=Lin YS ------>authors5= ------>authors6= ------>authors6_c= ------>authors=Peng SC ------>delete_flag=0 ------>SCI_JNo=None ------>authors2_c= ------>publish_area=0 ------>updateTitle=Consonant production and language skills in Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants. ------>language=2 ------>check_flag=None ------>submit_date=None ------>country=None ------>no=5 ------>patent_SDate=None ------>update_bywho=None ------>publish_year=2004 ------>submit_flag=None ------>publish_month=5 |