A Micro-Ethnographic Study of the Communication/Language Development in a Japanese Child with Profound Hearing Loss Before and After Cochlear Implantation

This study described the communication and spoken language development of a Japanese girl with profound hearing loss who used a cochlear implant from 19 months of age. The girl, Akiko, was born in Belgium where her family was living at that time. After she was identified as deaf at birth, she and he...

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Main Authors: Richard R. Kretschmer, Laura Kretschmer, Katsura Kuwahara, Roberta Truax
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) 2010-02-01
Series:Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry
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Online Access:http://dergipark.gov.tr/tojqi/issue/21389/229337?publisher=tojqi