"Speech Recognition" improves for deaf kids

 

 The March 2008 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery demonstrates deaf children with Cochlear implants experience a 59% variance of in later reading skills, and the data was collected by assessing the early speech perception/recognition and production performance!

 The speech perception and production skills at the vowel, consonant, phoneme, and word level of 72 children with prelingual, profound hearing loss were assessed after 48 mos of Cochlear implant use.

 The children’s reading skills were subsequently assessed using word and passage comprehension measures after an average of 89.5 mos of CI use. The results indicated that early speech perception and production skills of children with profound hearing loss who received advanced Cochlear implants predicts the future reading achievement skills...

 Original paper's abstract is available here.