Hearing impairment is a challenging societal health problem. In children, hearing loss can have detrimental influences on their early speech and language development as well social skills. In adults, an estimated one-third of the population in the age range of 65-74 and one-half of those above...
This paper focuses on those aspects of language development which one might expect hearing impairment to affect, and presents several hypotheses about the possible effects of mild-to-moderate hearing loss on the earliest stages of language development.Naremore, Rita C....
Most studies indicate that networks in the brain mature during childhood itself, facilitating the early development of language areas in the brain. Unfortunately, for children with ahearing impairment(which can be due to several factors like congenital defects, injuries, disease, among others), this ...
with mild and moderate perceptive hearing impairment who had neither any auditory training nor had used a hearing aid were studied. Mean hearing level was 51.9 dB. Our findings: (1) Speech discrimination score (SDS) correlated with the hearing level at 2, 4 and 1 kHz, in that order. In ...
Hearing impairment: A population study of age at diagnosis, severity, and language outcomes at 7-8 years BACKGROUND: Better language outcomes are reported for preschool children with hearing impairment (HI) diagnosed very early, irrespective of severity. Howev... Wake,M - 《Archives of Disease ...
hearing impairmentlanguage developmentThis paper reports language ability and everyday functioning of 133 children with hearing impairment who were evaluated at 3 years of age, as part of the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study. The language abilities of children ...
Early detection of hearing loss is vital for babies born with a hearing impairment, according to the institute. Identifying and treating hearing loss early is "imperative for good language development, with life-long consequences for social, educational and employment opportunities, and quality of life...
Clinical management of paediatric hearing impairment involves hearing aids, cochlear or brainstem implants, signal-to-noise improvement in educational settings, speech therapy, and sign language. Cochlear implants, for example, have much improved the situation of profoundly hearing impaired and deaf ...
HEARING IMPAIRMENT 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 3 作者: J Keir 摘要: The article reviews the book "Active Communication Education (ACE): A Program for Older People With Hearing Impairment," by Louise Hickson, Linda Worrall and Nerina Scarinci. 年份: 2008 ...
Hearing impairment: A population study of age at diagnosis, severity, and language outcomes at 7-8 years BACKGROUND: Better language outcomes are reported for preschool children with hearing impairment (HI) diagnosed very early, irrespective of severity. Howev... Wake,M - 《Archives of Disease ...