Central Coherence on Prosody and
Content in Children with Cochlear Implant
by Age Using Stimulus-Discrimination Program

Park, Gwee Nam; Kim, Wha Soo; Bae, Sook Ja; Seo, Yeong Ran

doi:2016.12.1.45

Audiology and Speech Research > Volume 12(1); 2016 > Article

Research Paper

Audiology and Speech Research 2016;12(1): 45-55.
Published online: January 31, 2016.
doi: http://doi.org/10.21848/asr.2016.12.1.45

Stimulus-Discrimination Program을 통해 본 연령에 따른 인공와우 착용 아동의 운율과 내용에 대한 중앙통합능력

박귀남¹, 김화수², 배숙자³, 서영란¹

¹경신청각언어연구소
²대구대학교 언어치료학과
³대구광역시 동부교육지원청

Central Coherence on Prosody and Content in Children with Cochlear Implant by Age Using Stimulus-Discrimination Program

Gwee Nam Park¹, Wha Soo Kim², Sook Ja Bae³, Yeong Ran Seo¹

¹KyeongShin Aural Rehabilitation Center, Daegu, Korea
²Department of Speech Pathology, Daegu University, Daegu, Korea
³Daegu Dongbu Office Of Education, Daegu, Korea

Correspondence

Yeong Ran Seo ,Tel: +82-53-256-3861, Fax: +82-53-256-3885, Email: ks650518@nate.com

Received: September 23, 2015; Revised: December 18, 2015 Accepted: December 28, 2015. Published online: January 31, 2016.

ABSTRACT

Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to investigate central coherence and auditory perception ability in children with cochlear implant by age.
Method:
The S-D program designed as a computer game was employed to present auditory tasks comprised of recombinations of the prosody and content to 40 cochlear implant (CI) children and 45 normal hearing (NH) children.
Results:
The findings showed that CI have shown similar performance on most of test (Stimulus, Prosody, Content) to NH. The Central coherence Test performance of CI revealed that their first appearance of central coherence was far behind. Above all, CI aged 5 to 11 showed little preference (weak central coherence) for prosody or content, whereas controls have shown a clear preference for content over prosody. In conclusion, the results of present study suggest that cochlear implant children’s difficulties in communication by prosody and content seem to be linked to weakness in central coherence, which are due to distortion of parallel stimulation in cochlear implant. In this regard, it seems necessary to develop technological aspects of cochlear implant.
Conclusion:
The present study recommends both a well-timed auditory training and using cochlear implant in order to improve the central coherence of hearing impaired children.

Key Words: Cochlear implant, Prosody, Content, Central coherence, Stimulus-Discrimination program.

중심단어: 인공와우· 운율· 내용· 중앙통합능력· S-D program.