Objective To understand the perception ability of vocal emotional prosody in 4-5 years old Mandaring-speaking children with cochlear implants and normal hearing children

and to provide reference and suggestions for hearing rehabilitation of cochlear implanted children. Method Fourteen children with cochlear implant from rehabilitation center and fourteen children with normal hearing from kindergarten participated in the test

The recorded voices were played by a computer in a quiet room

the children need to judge the emotion type of voice stimulus. Results The CI group showed significantly lower recognition accuracy（P< 0.001） than the NH group. In addition

NH children were easily have confusion between happy and angry emotions

CI children were likely to confuse all emotions. Conclusions The experimental results confirmed that Mandarin-speaking CI children have difficulty in vocal emotional perception. This requires the rehabilitation institutions and schools to consider children’s emotional rehabilitation when formulating rehabilitation plans.