Shannon L Barrett-Williams, Padra Franks, Christi Kay, Adria Meyer, Kelly Cornett, Brian Mosier
Bridging Public Health and Education: Results of a School-Based Physical Activity Program to Increase Student Fitness
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
investigate effect age ci activation explore role variables linguistic skills stimulation modality gender reading comprehension prospective observational nonrandomized study 89 children profound congenital sensorineural hearing loss included study mean age ci activation 21 months ds 11 range 750 italian reading standardized test prove di lettura mt used assess reading comprehension individual raw data mt score converted z scores expected values means 0 sd 1 positive values indicated better performance negative values indicated worse performance early implanted children achieved significantly better reading comprehension skills 55 89 children within 1 sd overall mean 34 children 382 attainted mt zscores less 1 sd mean children unilateral ci performed somewhat worse compared bilateral ci bimodal stimulation mode although differences weakly significant statistical point view strong positive correlation rho 69 p 001 found lexical morphosyntactic comprehension rho 70 p 001 significantly different values observed gender parental education level early cochlear implantation promoted better development reading skills children cochlear implantation level evidences outcomes research