Story Retelling Skills in Persian Speaking Hearing-impaired Children

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in seeking ways to evaluate children’s language in a natural context. In Iran the study of language development skills in hearing impaired children is mainly focused on the development of early language skills and story retelling creates a valid way for assessing the effects of cochlear implant on complex linguistic usesuch as pragmatics. Pragmatic abilities, which refer to the actual use of language, are an important area in language. A number of researchers have reported that story retelling creates a valid way for assessing pragmatic and complex structures (1).

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