ArticleBMC pediatrics2021
Cognitive functioning in Deaf children using Cochlear implants.
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- Early Cochlear Implant Promotes Global Development in Children with Severe-to-Profound Hearing Loss.Audiology research · 2025Article
- Causes and Challenges Regarding Explantation and Reimplantation in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Surgery: A Retrospective Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Development of the Parental Expectations and Perspectives Questionnaire in Hindi to Measure the Outcomes from Pediatric Cochlear Implantation.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2025Article
- Neurocognitive outcomes in young adults with cochlear implants: The role of early language access and crossmodal plasticity.Hearing research · 2024Article
- Do auditory brainstem implants favor the development of sensory integration and cognitive functions?Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Comparative Analysis of Intellectual Quotient in Developmental Population with Severe Hearing Loss: Hearing Aids vs. Cochlear Implant Users.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Multidisciplinary Cognitive Function Assessment of Good versus Poor Performance in Children with Cochlear Implants: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2023Article
- Verbal, Figural, and Arithmetic Fluency of Children with Cochlear Implants.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Language Intervention Instead of Speech Intervention for Children With Cochlear Implants.Journal of audiology & otology · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundCognitive abilities like language, memory, reasoning, visualization, and perceptual functioning shape human action and are considered critical to the successful interaction with the environment. Alternatively, hearing loss can disrupt a child's ability to communicate, and negatively impact cognitive development. Cochlear implants (CI) restore auditory input thereby supporting communication and may enhance cognitive performance. This study compares general cognitive development after cochlear implantation (2017-2019) in two groups of Jordanian children implanted earlier (age:4-6 years, N = 22) and later (7-9 years, N = 16) to the development of randomly selected normal hearing peers (N = 48).
designVisualization, reasoning, memory, and attention were assessed using the Leiter-R scale at baseline (before implantation), 8 months and 16 months post implantation for children with hearing loss. Same times of testing (baseline, 8 months and 16 months) were used for normal hearing peers.
resultsOver the 16-month period, the cognitive improvement of 4-6-year-old deaf children was greater than that of their normal hearing peers on the scales of visualization (5.62 vs. 4.40), reasoning (2.53 vs. 2.38) and memory (17.19 vs. 11.67). while the improvement of 7-9-year-old was less major than that of their normal hearing peers on all scales.
conclusionsThese results suggest that CI not only enhances communication skills but may improve cognitive functioning in deaf children. However, the extent of this improvement was dependent on age at intervention; current results demonstrated that the children received CI at young ages had better cognitive improvements.
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