PMID- 20645855
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101222
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1464-5076 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-9206 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 9
DP  - 2010 Sep
TI  - Lexical and grammatical development in a child with cochlear implant and 
      attention deficit: A case study.
PG  - 706-21
LID - 10.3109/02699206.2010.488782 [doi]
AB  - This is the first study to explore lexical and grammatical development in a deaf 
      child diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inattentive 
      sub-type (ADHD/I). The child, whose family language was Spanish, was fitted with 
      a cochlear implant (CI) when she was 18 months old. ADHD/I, for which she was 
      prescribed medication, was diagnosed 3;6 years later. Speech samples were 
      videotaped over the first 4 years of CI use and during a follow-up session 1 year 
      later. Samples were transcribed according to CHAT conventions and several 
      measures of expressive language were obtained. Receptive language was evaluated 
      with standardized tests. Results show that while some aspects of her development 
      seemed relatively positive (e.g., acquisition of verbal morphemes at the same 
      auditory age as typical children), other characteristics were atypical for a CI 
      user: (1) preference for paralexical expressions in early lexicon; (2) lexical 
      errors in colours and other abstract words; and (3) low MLU and varied 
      grammatical errors including disorganized discourse. Medication had a positive 
      effect on all these characteristics, providing evidence of a link with ADHD/I. 
      This study concludes that ADHD/I had a direct impact on the lexical and 
      grammatical development in this child, as well as an indirect influence over her 
      communicative style. More studies are needed to explore language characteristics 
      of children with CI and ADHD.
FAU - Moreno-Torres, Ignacio
AU  - Moreno-Torres I
AD  - University of Malaga, Spanish Language, Campus de Teatinos s/n, Malaga, Spain. 
      imoreno@uma.es
FAU - Torres, Santiago
AU  - Torres S
FAU - Santana, Rafael
AU  - Santana R
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Clin Linguist Phon
JT  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
JID - 8802622
SB  - IM
MH  - Aging
MH  - Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/*surgery
MH  - *Cochlear Implants
MH  - Comprehension
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Language
MH  - Language Development Disorders/*surgery
MH  - Learning Disabilities/etiology
MH  - *Linguistics
MH  - Phonetics
MH  - Speech
MH  - Vocabulary
EDAT- 2010/07/22 06:00
MHDA- 2010/12/24 06:00
CRDT- 2010/07/22 06:00
PHST- 2010/07/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/12/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.3109/02699206.2010.488782 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Clin Linguist Phon. 2010 Sep;24(9):706-21. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2010.488782.