Silvia D’Ortenzio
List of John Benjamins publications in which Silvia D’Ortenzio is involved.
Articles
2021 Chapter 6. Assessing children’s syntactic proficiency through a sentence repetition task: A comparison between cochlear implanted children and typically developing children L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu (eds.), pp. 133–170 | Chapter
Cochlear implants (CIs) can provide proper linguistic input to children with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. However, despite an early diagnosis and intervention, and the development of lexical skills and speech perception similar to typically developing age peers, children with… read more
2020 A syntactically based treatment of relative clauses: Three case studies of Italian children with cochlear implant Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax, Torrens, Vincent (ed.), pp. 177–207 | Chapter
In this paper, we describe three case studies of a syntactic intervention given to three Italian-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) to improve proficiency in the production and comprehension of relative clauses, and also their narrative skills. The methodology adopted for the… read more

