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Peer reviewedMusselman, Carol Reich; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
A 4-year study of 131 preschool children with severe/profound hearing losses found that children tended to be placed first in auditory/oral programs and later moved to total communication programs. Evaluated are the performance of children in both types of programs on measures of spoken language, receptive language, and mother-child communication.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition, Oral Communication Method
