Korean J Otolaryngol-Head Neck Surg.  1997 Mar;40(3):340-346.

Cognitive Ability in Total Deafness with K-WISC

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  • 1Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea.

Abstract

The criteria of suitability for a cochlear implant has been extended postlingual deaf adult including prelingual deaf children in their difficulty with speech and vocabulary development. The cognitve ability of deaf students has been investigated in a deaf school using Kedi-WISC. The results are as follows; 1) The deaf students were not inferior in intelligence when compared with normal hearers, but the intelligence between deaf students and normal hearers was different in quality. 2) In subtest they made higher scores at object assembly, block design and coding in senior group 3) It is supposed for deaf student that performance under vision and memory is relatively excellent although concrete and abstract tasks is retarded. No emotional disordered cases is found in this study.

Keyword

Cochlear implant; Cognitive ability; Wechsller Intelligence Scale for Childern(WISC)

MeSH Terms

Adult
Child
Clinical Coding
Cochlear Implants
Deafness*
Humans
Intelligence
Memory
Vocabulary
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