Introduction: The amount of music training or informal musical activities can affect the perception of music, speech in noise, as well as language skills of both children with cochlear implants (CIs) and normal hearing (NH). We compared the amount of informal music involvement at home and formal musical activities outside of the home between children with CIs and those with NH, and studied what considerations may underlie any differences found. For instance, do parental expectations on the potential of their child having a career in music, or the music enjoyment levels of children with CIs result in a shift of engagement with music. We also studied the connections of musical activities to the semantic word fluency performance.
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