2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The comparison in the use of repair strategies between Cochlear implant children and normal hearing children in oral conversation.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24830070
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Special needs education
Research Institution	International University of Health and Welfare
Principal Investigator	HIRASHIMA YUIKO 国際医療福祉大学, 保健医療学部, 講師 (10637812)
Project Period (FY)	2012-08-31 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	人工内耳装用児 / 音声会話 / 訂正方略 / 言語力
Research Abstract	Children with Cochlear implants (CI) tend to exhibit communication breakdowns and need to use repair strategies. One aim of this study was to find if CI children used repair strategies more often than NH children. The other was to find which language abilities correlated with the repair strategies. For CI children and NH children, free conversations were held including the same questions to each child. The number of repair strategies was compared b/w CI and NH. The repair strategies were examined in relation to the language abilities, that is, receptive vocabulary, speech recognition, expressive syntax and word association. The gap b/w CI and NH could not be seen obviously, rather depended on each individual. Language abilities correlated with the repair strategies were expressive syntax and word association. The language abilities especially expressive syntax were the key role for the repair strategies. And word association made CI children rich imagine what had been said.