Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing
IntroductionNarrative skills are crucial for academic success and social interaction. To date, few studies have looked at the specific impact of hearing loss on higher-level language skills, like narrative skills, especially in German-speaking children. This study is the first to analyze the narrati...
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| description | IntroductionNarrative skills are crucial for academic success and social interaction. To date, few studies have looked at the specific impact of hearing loss on higher-level language skills, like narrative skills, especially in German-speaking children. This study is the first to analyze the narrative skills of German-speaking children who are hard of hearing.MethodSpecifically, we assessed and compared the narrative skills of two groups of school-aged children – children who are hard of hearing (n = 22; Mage = 10;5) and children with typical hearing (n = 28; Mage = 9;0) – at the macro- and microstructural level using a standardized storytelling task. In addition, the relationship between spoken narrative skills, receptive vocabulary, and phonological working memory was investigated to determine which factors best predict oral narrative performance.ResultsChildren who are hard of hearing produced adequate narratives at the macrostructural level, but used less diverse vocabulary than their peers without hearing loss. Furthermore, children who are hard of hearing demonstrated lower receptive vocabulary and phonological working memory skills than children with typical hearing. Receptive vocabulary emerged as the most important factor in predicting narrative skills at the microstructural level.DiscussionThe heterogeneity observed in the narratives of children who are hard of hearing emphasizes the need to investigate additional factors that may influence the development and expression of spoken narrative skills in this group. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-45fde4a6c6fd47c7acaf300db21f82b22025-08-20T02:52:11ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Communication2297-900X2024-12-01910.3389/fcomm.2024.14730751473075Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearingLara Hardebeck0Esther Ruigendijk1Bénédicte Grandon2Bénédicte Grandon3Ulla Licandro4Department of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Oldenburg, GermanyDepartment of Dutch Studies, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Oldenburg, GermanyDepartment of Dutch Studies, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Oldenburg, GermanyNantes Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de linguistique de Nantes, UMR 6310, Nantes, FranceDepartment of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Oldenburg, GermanyIntroductionNarrative skills are crucial for academic success and social interaction. To date, few studies have looked at the specific impact of hearing loss on higher-level language skills, like narrative skills, especially in German-speaking children. This study is the first to analyze the narrative skills of German-speaking children who are hard of hearing.MethodSpecifically, we assessed and compared the narrative skills of two groups of school-aged children – children who are hard of hearing (n = 22; Mage = 10;5) and children with typical hearing (n = 28; Mage = 9;0) – at the macro- and microstructural level using a standardized storytelling task. In addition, the relationship between spoken narrative skills, receptive vocabulary, and phonological working memory was investigated to determine which factors best predict oral narrative performance.ResultsChildren who are hard of hearing produced adequate narratives at the macrostructural level, but used less diverse vocabulary than their peers without hearing loss. Furthermore, children who are hard of hearing demonstrated lower receptive vocabulary and phonological working memory skills than children with typical hearing. Receptive vocabulary emerged as the most important factor in predicting narrative skills at the microstructural level.DiscussionThe heterogeneity observed in the narratives of children who are hard of hearing emphasizes the need to investigate additional factors that may influence the development and expression of spoken narrative skills in this group.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1473075/fullnarrative skillschildren who are hard of hearingreceptive vocabularyphonological working memoryschool-age |
| spellingShingle | Lara Hardebeck Esther Ruigendijk Bénédicte Grandon Bénédicte Grandon Ulla Licandro Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing Frontiers in Communication narrative skills children who are hard of hearing receptive vocabulary phonological working memory school-age |
| title | Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing |
| title_full | Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing |
| title_fullStr | Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing |
| title_short | Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing |
| title_sort | narrative and related spoken language skills a comparison between german speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing |
| topic | narrative skills children who are hard of hearing receptive vocabulary phonological working memory school-age |
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