%0 Journal Article
%A López Sánchez, Ramón
%A Gallego López, Carlos
%A Martín-Aragoneses, María Teresa
%A Melle Hernández, Natalia
%T Morpho-syntactic reading comprehension in children with early and late cochlear implants
%D 2015
%@ 1081-4159
%@ 1465-7325
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102506
%X This study explores morpho-syntactic reading comprehension in 19 Spanish children who received a cochlear implant (CI) before 24 months of age (early CI [e-CI]), and 19 with CI placed after 24 months (late CI [l-CI]). They all were in primary school and were compared to a hearing control (HC) group of 19 children. Tests of perceptual reasoning, working memory,receptive vocabulary, and morpho-syntactic comprehension were used in the assessment. It was observed that while children with l-CI showed a delay, those with e-CI reached a level close to that which was obtained by their control peers in morpho-syntactic comprehension. Thus, results confirm a positive effect of early implantation on morpho-syntacticreading comprehension. Inflectional morphology and simple sentence comprehension were noted to be better in the e-CI group than in the l-CI group. The most important factor in distinguishing between the HC and l-CI groups or the e-CI and l-CI groups, was verbal inflectional morphology.
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