000 children born in the United States are deaf or have a hearing loss significant enough to affect speech and language development.1 Early intervention has been shown to be effective in facilitating speech and
Rehabilitation services refer to comprehensive and holistic approaches that can include hearing aids and implants; rehabilitative therapy; sign language learning; other sensory substitutions like speechreading; and use of assistive technologies (eg, personal FM systems) and services (eg captioning). These...
Temporal modulation detection ability matures over many years after birth and may be particularly sensitive to experience during this period. Profound hearing loss during early childhood might result in greater perceptual deficits than a similar loss beginning in adulthood. We tested this idea by measuri...