| 인공와우 착용 아동의 작업기억,
문장이해력과 문장인지도 간의 관계 |
| 박소현1, 방정화2 |
1경신청각언어연구소
2한림국제대학원대학교 청각학과 |
| The Relation among Working memory, Sentence Comprehension and
Sentence Recognition in Children with a Cochlear Implant |
| Sohyun Park1, Junghwa Bahng2 |
1Kyeong Shin Aural Rehabilitation Center, Daegu, Korea
2Department of Audiology, Hallym University of Graduate Studies, Seoul, Korea |
| Correspondence |
Junghwa Bahng ,Tel: 070-8680-6933, Fax: (02) 3453-6618, Email: bahng.jh@gmail.com
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Received: May 7, 2011; Revised: May 31, 2011 Accepted: June 7, 2011. Published online: June 30, 2011. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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This study was to examine the relations among working memory, sentence comprehension and recognition performance by children
with a cochlear implant. 20 subjects, divided in two groups, participated; 10 normal hearing children and 10 children with a cochlear
implant. Children were all between 6 and 8 years old. The duration of implant use for all children with a cochlear implant was
between 4 and 6 years. In the working memory task, children recalled words under three different processing load conditions (i.e.,
no-load, single-load, and dual-load conditions). In the sentence comprehension task, children listened sentences and chose one picture
that explained the sentences. In the sentence recognition task, children listened the target sentence and repeated it or wrote it down.
Results of the memory task showed that two groups were not significantly different. However, the children with a cochlear implant
showed poorer performance in recalling words in the dual-load condition than those in the other conditions. On the sentence
comprehension and recognition tasks, children with a cochlear implant group showed poorer performance than normal hearing
children group. In all the three tasks, there were individual variabilities in children with a cochlear implant group. Results of the
relationship among three tasks indicated that scores of dual-load condition task were significantly correlated to those of sentence
comprehension and recognition tasks in children with a cochlear implant group. Conclusively, findings suggested that children with a
cochlear implant have a similar working memory capacity to that of normal hearing children due to early intervention of auditory,
speech and language. In addition, findings from children with a cochlear implant group also indicated that their processing capability,
especially a complex process, may influence their language ability. |
| Key Words:
Children wearing a cochlear Implant, Sentence comprehension, Sentence recognition, Working memory. |
| 중심단어:
문장이해력, 문장인지도, 인공와우 착용 아동,
작업기억. |
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