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Abstract
The cochlear implant is a revolutionary solution for hearing rehabilitation of HI. It aims to improve the life quality of children with severe to profound and profound SNHL. Language development is an important scale for evaluation of successful CI surgery.
Pragmatics is the area of language function that embraces the use of language in social contexts (knowing what to say, how to say, and when to say it, and how to “be” with other people. It is the ability to comprehend and produce a communicative act. Pragmatics is divided into 3 domains: Pragmatic factors, pragmatic functions and pragmatic skills. Pragmatic factors include the level of formality between the speaker and the listener, the social roles they play, and the communicative situation. Pragmatic functions are the functions intended by an utterance e.g. requests, questions, and promises. Pragmatic skills include the ability of the speaker and the listener to carry on certain aspects such as: A) Non-verbal aspects: physical proximity, physical contact, body posture, body movements, eye contact and facial expressions. B) Paralinguistic aspects: speech intelligibility, vocal intensity, vocal quality, prosody, and fluency. C) Verbal aspects: turn-taking, clarification requests (resolution of conversational misunderstanding), initiation, conversational exchanges, presupposition, inferences, coherence, and story-telling.
In the light of the absence of sufficient information concerning the impact of age at CI and pragmatic language development, this study was designed to compare the pragmatic language development of the prelingual hearing impaired children who were cochlearly implanted before the age of 3 years and those who were cochlearly implanted after the age of 3 years, in order to investigate the impact of the early CI on the development of the pragmatic language of those children.