2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study of instruction of phonological awareness for children with cochlear implant

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21531008
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Special needs education
Research Institution	Tsukuba University of Technology
Principal Investigator	CHOUNAN Hirohito 筑波技術大学, 障害者高等教育研究支援センター, 准教授 (70364130)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SHIROMA Masae 国際医療福祉大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (80285981) HAMADA Toyohiko 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80313279)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	人工内耳 / 音韻意識 / 認知的方略
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study was to develop teaching program of phonological awareness for children with cochlear implant and examine the effects of this program. The main results were as follows : some children who had high score of speech reception threshold test made use of sound image in phonological task, others responded phonological task by making use of inference and meta-cognition. On one hand, there were children who did not make use of any cognitive strategy and showed low score of phonological task. The effects of this program for writing words were unquestionable except geminate consonant. Achievements of reading comprehension test show improvement, and were not proportional to the age.

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