COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT

Rama Krishna Pettala; Rajeswari K

COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT

July 2017

Vol-3, Issue-4

Paper ID: 6209

ISSN: 2395-4396

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Research Area

Special Education

Keywords

Preschool Children with Hearing Impairment Cognitive Capabilities Language Skills.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the correlation between the cognitive capabilities and language skills among preschool children with Hearing Impairment. The sample of the study constituted 30 CwHI studying in Preschool. The data was collected on different aspects of cognitive capabilities and language skills in a preschool for children with hearing impairment with Padmini Cognitive Capability Test (PCCT) Pre-school Version-1 and Language Assessment Test (LAT) adapted version of Grade Level Assessment Device (GLAD). The scores of PCCT and LAT were compared and tested for correlation. Data was analyzed statistically to find out the correlation between PCCT and LAT scores and also compared the PCCT scores of Preschool CwHI and hearing children with the existing available data. Pearson correlation r=0.796 was obtained for correlation between PCCT and LAT scores are significant at 0.001 level indicates positive correlation between cognitive capabilities and Language skills. And comparison of PCCT scores of Preschool CwHI and normal hearing children with same age group reveals that there is no difference in the performance of cognitive capabilities in both Preschool CwHI and Children with normal hearing.

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#	Name	Institute / Affiliation
1	Rama Krishna Pettala	Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
2	Rajeswari K	Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

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Pettala, Rama Krishna & K, Rajeswari (2017). COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, 3(4), 1693-1699.

MLA Style

Pettala, Rama Krishna, and Rajeswari K. "COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, vol. 3, no. 4, 2017, pp. 1693-1699.

IEEE Style

Rama Krishna Pettala and Rajeswari K, "COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT," International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1693-1699, 2017.

Vancouver Style

Pettala Rama Krishna, K Rajeswari. COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education. 2017;3(4):1693-1699.

Harvard Style

Pettala, Rama Krishna & K, Rajeswari (2017) 'COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT', International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, 3(4), pp. 1693-1699.

Chicago Style

Pettala, Rama Krishna and Rajeswari K. "COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 3, no. 4 (2017): 1693-1699.

Turabian Style

Pettala, Rama Krishna and Rajeswari K. "COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES AND LANGUAGE SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 3, no. 4 (2017): 1693-1699.