objectives: a large number of congenitally deaf children are born annually. if not treated, this will have destructive effects on their language and speech development, educational achievements and future occupation. in this study it has been tried to determine the level of language skills in children with cochlear implants (ci) in comparison with normal hearing (nh) age-mates. methods: test of...

Objectives: Word definitional skills (WDSs) were classified according to the quality of both semantic content and syntactic form. The aim of the present study was to investigate the syntactic development in WDSs in typically developing school- age children. Methods: In this cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study,  150 of typically developing school-age children participated by...

This report is concerned with the sources of language a lack of systematic work on the possible effects of landevelopment in the child. We have found a substantial guage input on vocabulary size. Clearly, however, vocabrelation between naturally occurring variations in ulary has to be learned, and attaining a large vocabuchildren’s language environments and their language lary is a huge associa...

This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on capabilities. Skills embodied in agents empower people. Enhanced skills enhance opportunities and hence ...

objectives: word definitional skills (wdss) were classified according to the quality of both semantic content and syntactic form. the aim of the present study was to investigate the syntactic development in wdss in typically developing school- age children. methods: in this cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study,  150 of typically developing school-age children participated by the  mu...

Read mathematical formulae (MF) provide an ideal and littlestudied window into speakers' ability to prosodically disambiguate complex NPs. An experiment investigating whether and how speakers of different mathematical skill levels prosodically mark English utterances containing ambiguities caused by the application of unary and binary mathematical operators found that speakers consistently mark...

Objectives: Auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. It seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. This research was aimed to study the pe...

This study examined the relationships of three levels of reading fluency, the individual word, the syntactic unit, and the whole passage, to reading comprehension among 278 fifth graders heterogeneous in reading ability. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that reading fluency at each level related uniquely to performance on a standardized reading comprehension test in a model including i...