Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the oral narrative skills of children with cochlear implants. Specifically, the researcher compared the oral narrative skills of children with cochlear implants to their typically hearing, age- and gender-matched peers. Language samples were collected from five children with cochlear implants using the Test of Narrative Language (TNL; Gillam & Pearson, 2004) to elicit three narratives from each of the children. The three narrative tasks included: a retell task, a story generation task based on a sequence of pictures, and a story creation task based on a single image. The researcher transcribed, analyzed, and scored the narratives to evaluate microstructural and macrostructural elements of the resulting narratives. There was no significance found across the three narrative tasks. Although this study revealed that overall, the children performed similar to their hearing peers, additional research is needed to establish normative data on the TNL (Gillam & Pearson, 2004) for children with cochlear implants.
Advisor
Furey, Joan
Second Advisor
Goldberg, Don
Department
Communication Studies
Recommended Citation
Berry, Autumn M., "Once Upon a Time: How the Oral Narrative Abilities of Children with Cochlear Implants Compare with their Hearing Peers" (2014). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 5902.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/5902
Keywords
cochlear implant, narrative, microstructure, and macrostructure
Publication Date
2014
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
© Copyright 2014 Autumn M. Berry