Cochlear Implants and Classroom Learning among Deaf College Students
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 5
Abstract
Previous studies have demonstrated that early academic benefits associated with cochlear implant (CI) use during the primary school years are attenuated or absent among secondary school and college students, at least when assessed via standardized testing. This study examined the extent to which CI use nevertheless provides deaf college students with advantages in classrooms that include both deaf and hearing learners. CIs users, deaf nonusers, and hearing students viewed two short lectures provided by a deaf, bilingual instructor, one in spoken language with sign language interpreting and one in sign language with voice interpreting. Content-specific pretests indicated that both CIs users and deaf nonusers came into the classroom with less content knowledge than their hearing peers, and both groups of deaf students scored lower than hearing peers on lecture-specific posttests. There was no advantage for CI users over non-CI users on either measure. The hearing status difference was eliminated, however, when prior knowledge was controlled. Participants’ preferred communication modality did not affect performance. Performance also did not differ when instruction was provided directly by the instructor as compared to when it was mediated by a sign language/voice interpreter.
Authors and Affiliations
Marc Marschark, Thomastine Sarchet, Patricia Sapere, Carol Convertino
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- EP ID EP621923
- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2019.18.003215
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