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Orthographic influences, vocabulary development, and phonological awareness in deaf children who use cochlear implants

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Deborah James, Professor Utpal Goswami

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Abstract

In the Current study, we explore the influence of orthographic knowledge oil phonological awareness in children with cochlear implants and compare developmental associations to those found for hearing children matched for word reading level or chronological age. We show all influence of orthographic knowledge on syllable and phoneme awareness in deaf and hearing children, but no orthographic effect oil rhyme awareness. Nonorthographic rhyme awareness was a significant predictor of reading Outcomes for all groups. However, whereas receptive vocabulary knowledge was the most important predictor of word reading variance in the cochlear implant group, rhyme awareness was the only important predictor of word reading variance in the reading level matched hearing group. Both vocabulary and rhyme awareness were equally important in predicting reading in the chronological age-matched hearing group. The data suggest that both deaf and hearing children are influenced by orthography when making phonological judgments, and that phonological awareness and vocabulary are both important for reading development.

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Author(s): James D, Rajput K, Brinton J, Goswami U

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Applied Psycholinguistics

Year: 2009

Volume: 30

Issue: 4

Pages: 659-684

Date deposited: 25/02/2011

ISSN (print): 0142-7164

ISSN (electronic): 1469-1817

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716409990063

DOI: 10.1017/S0142716409990063

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