Verbal Fluency in Prelingually Deaf, Early Implanted Children and Adolescents With Cochlear Implants.
Fahad HasnainReid M HerranShirley C HenningAllison M DitmarsDavid B PisoniSusan T SehgalWilliam G KronenbergerPublished in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR (2023)
Cochlear implant users show poorer phonological and semantic verbal fluency than normal-hearing peers, and their verbal fluency is significantly associated with speech perception and verbal working memory. These findings suggest deficits in fluent retrieval of phonological and semantic information from long-term lexical memory in cochlear implant users.