López Sánchez, RamónGallego López, CarlosMartín-Aragoneses, María TeresaMelle Hernández, Natalia2024-04-022024-04-022015-03-03López-Higes, R., Gallego, C., Martín-Aragoneses, M. T., & Melle, N. (2015). Morpho-syntactic reading comprehension in children with early and late cochlear implants. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 20(2), 136-146.1081-41591465-732510.1093/deafed/env004https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102506This 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-syntactic reading 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.engjournal articlehttps://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article/20/2/136/364549https://academic.oup.com/jdsderestricted accessCochlear implantEarly implantationMorpho-syntactic reading comprehensionPsicología (Psicología)61 Psicología