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From https://www.ozy.com/acumen/how-deaf-children-are-being-locked-out-of-language/89643

How Deaf Children Are Being Locked Out of Language
by Carly Stern
December 3, 2018

Deaf children with cochlear implants still can’t hear as well as hearing individuals, Hauser says. On average, deaf children with cochlear implants demonstrated lower receptive and expressive vocabulary knowledge than children with full hearing, according to a 2016 meta-analysis published in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. While some develop strong hearing skills and grow comfortable with spoken language, others don’t. By the time this is discovered, children may have been deprived of language in the critical acquisition period, or the first few years of life.

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