Home language maintenance in bilingual children with normal hearing and with hearing loss who use cochlear implants.

Clin Linguist Phon

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.

Published: May 2022

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  • A study was conducted to examine how well bilingual children maintain their home language (Spanish) over time, focusing on normal hearing (NH) children and those with hearing loss (HL) using cochlear implants (CIs).
  • The research involved 22 bilingual children (11 NH and 11 CI users), who were matched on various factors, and assessed their language skills through standard tests at two different points.
  • Results indicated that NH children outperformed CI users in language tasks and maintained their home language better, but both groups showed some level of home language maintenance, with more variability noted in the CI group.

Article Abstract

We investigated home language (Spanish) maintenance in Spanish- and English-speaking bilingual children with normal hearing (NH) and their peers with hearing loss (HL) who used cochlear implants (CIs) at two time points about 7 months apart. Twenty-two bilingual children (11 with NH and 11 with CIs) between the ages of 4;6 and 7;11 participated in the study, who were matched as closely as possible on chronological age, time elapsed between the first and the second sample, gender, and age of exposure to their languages across groups. We compared group performance on the Preschool Language Scales - 5 edition (PLS-5) and the Word Intelligibility Picture Identification at each time point as well as home language maintenance calculated based on item responses on the PLS-5. Our results indicated differences on all measures at both time points between the performance of children with NH and their peers with HL who used CIs in that the former group outperformed the latter. We also found that bilingual children with NH maintained their home language at a higher level than their peers with HL who used CIs. Further, the data also showed that despite the group differences, both groups displayed maintenance of their home language and that individual variability was more prevalent in the CI group. We conclude that home language maintenance is not only possible, but it should be encouraged for both bilingual children with NH and their peers with HL who used CIs.

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