READING COMPREHENSION AND WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY IN CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS AND COCHLEAR IMPLANTS OR HEARING AIDS.

ANALYSIS of variance; COCHLEAR implants; HEARING aids; HEARING impaired children; MEMORY; READING; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); DATA analysis; TASK performance; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

The article discusses a study which compared reading comprehension in 2 groups of children with hearing loss (HL) namely those with cochlear implants (CI) and those with hearing aids (HA) with all of them having spoken Swedish as their primary communication mode. Also investigated was how different aspects of working memory capacity (WM) relate to reading comprehension in the 2 groups. It suggests that the children with HA was more homogenous than the group of CI.