Guerzoni L, et al. - In this investigation 89 children [mean age at CI activation was 21 months (DS +/- 11; range 7-50)] with profound congenital sensorineural hearing loss, researchers studied the impact of age at CI activation and examined the role of other variables like linguistic skills, stimulation modality and gender on reading comprehension. In children with cochlear implantation, early cochlear implantation facilitated a better development of reading skills. In contrast with bilateral CI and bimodal stimulation mode, children with unilateral CI perform somewhat worse, although the differences were weakly significant from a statistical point of view. A strong and positive association was discovered with lexical and morphosyntactic comprehension. Not significantly different values for gender and parental education level were found.