Discussion The main conclusion to gain from this review is how academic success in deaf children birth through 10, school age 10 through 18, and overall age-span birth through 18 years of age have more academic success with a cochlear implants compared to children without a cochlear implant. The studies correlate with children who receive a cochlear implant early in life and this contributes to greater success academically for a deaf child. According to Bat-Chava et al. (2014), Geers & Nicholas (2013) and Levine (2016), early implantation of cochlear implants is best to achieve and maintain age-appropriate spoken language skills into and through the academic years for a child. The evidence shows cochlear implants are successful. Deaf children
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One convenient strength was all the researchers who were involved in conducting this review were passionate about this subject matter. Although, faced with a few complications throughout the process such as multiple articles that the sample sizes were far larger than intended, which is why the population age on the tables range birth through 25 years. For example, the article with the largest age range was the Hyde et al. (2011) and had an age range of 0.67-25.0 years old. This made it difficult to draw up exact conclusions on the review. A lot of articles obtained the same information in different wording allowing multiple sources to reference. On the other hand, Levine (2016) and Yoon (2011) both had no sample size. The two articles gave an overview of cochlear implantation while referring to previous literature to better understand outcomes regardless of not having a set sample size. The weaknesses could depend on the exclusion criteria non-English publications were excluded and the publication were limited to only 2007-2016 this gave the most recent information but could have excluded any long-term studies. To conclude, there were many advantages and disadvantages while finding information for the research question. The articles referred to a broad age range of children which made it easier …show more content…
It is important for Speech and Language Pathologists to be educated on children with CI’s. Within the Brown article (2010) it showed that this helped the children to improve academically. Obtaining an American Sign Language Interpreter degree, the deaf culture views cochlear implantations as a loss of sign language and deaf history. Throughout these articles, there was no information given about the use of sign language in an academic setting or the impact it had on the deaf culture. Another finding as stated in the previous paragraph was the limited amount of research that tested academic growth of deaf children with or without cochlear implants. Most of the references used were compared to hearing children. There is still much knowledge to be learned about deaf culture and cochlear implantation use that isn’t yet
One convenient strength was all the researchers who were involved in conducting this review were passionate about this subject matter. Although, faced with a few complications throughout the process such as multiple articles that the sample sizes were far larger than intended, which is why the population age on the tables range birth through 25 years. For example, the article with the largest age range was the Hyde et al. (2011) and had an age range of 0.67-25.0 years old. This made it difficult to draw up exact conclusions on the review. A lot of articles obtained the same information in different wording allowing multiple sources to reference. On the other hand, Levine (2016) and Yoon (2011) both had no sample size. The two articles gave an overview of cochlear implantation while referring to previous literature to better understand outcomes regardless of not having a set sample size. The weaknesses could depend on the exclusion criteria non-English publications were excluded and the publication were limited to only 2007-2016 this gave the most recent information but could have excluded any long-term studies. To conclude, there were many advantages and disadvantages while finding information for the research question. The articles referred to a broad age range of children which made it easier …show more content…
It is important for Speech and Language Pathologists to be educated on children with CI’s. Within the Brown article (2010) it showed that this helped the children to improve academically. Obtaining an American Sign Language Interpreter degree, the deaf culture views cochlear implantations as a loss of sign language and deaf history. Throughout these articles, there was no information given about the use of sign language in an academic setting or the impact it had on the deaf culture. Another finding as stated in the previous paragraph was the limited amount of research that tested academic growth of deaf children with or without cochlear implants. Most of the references used were compared to hearing children. There is still much knowledge to be learned about deaf culture and cochlear implantation use that isn’t yet