Case report: acquisition of three spoken languages by a child with a cochlear implant.

Cochlear Implants Int

Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong and Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue University, Indiana 47907-1353, USA.

Published: March 2003

There have been only two reports of multilingual cochlear implant users to date, and both of these were postlingually deafened adults. Here we report the case of a 6-year-old early-deafened child who is acquiring Cantonese, English and Mandarin in Hong Kong. He and two age-matched peers with similar educational backgrounds were tested using common, standardized tests of vocabulary and expressive and receptive language skills (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (Revised) and Reynell Developmental Language Scales version II). Results show that this child is acquiring Cantonese, English and Mandarin to a degree comparable to two classmates with normal hearing and similar educational and social backgrounds.

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