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'We Manage, but Yeah, It's Challenging': A Mixed-Methods Study of Enablers and Barriers to Hearing Assessments for Parents of Children in Metropolitan and Regional Australia
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Jenna Zussino; Barbra Zupan; Robyn Preston – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Early identification and intervention for hearing loss is important for supporting language development. Despite this, parents are required to overcome barriers to access hearing assessments for their children. Aims: To identify the enablers and barriers to accessing hearing assessments for Australian children identified by their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments, Auditory Evaluation, Language Acquisition
Fueling Spoken Language Development through Auditory Access
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Ryan McCreery – Volta Review, 2024
Children can only develop spoken language through consistent exposure to the acoustic cues that comprise speech and language. Until recently, hearing levels from the clinical audiogram were the primary measure used to define typical hearing and the presence or degree of a child's hearing loss. While the clinical audiogram remains an important…
Descriptors: Children, Oral Language, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition
Audibility-Based Hearing Aid Fitting Criteria for Children with Mild Bilateral Hearing Loss
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McCreery, Ryan W.; Walker, Elizabeth A.; Stiles, Derek J.; Spratford, Meredith; Oleson, Jacob J.; Lewis, Dawna E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: Because of uncertainty about the level of hearing where hearing aids should be provided to children, the goal of the current study was to develop audibility-based hearing aid candidacy criteria based on the relationship between unaided hearing and language outcomes in a group of children with hearing loss who did not wear hearing aids.…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Criteria, Children
THE DEAF. PRENTICE-HALL FOUNDATIONS OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY SERIES.
DI CARLO, LOUIS M. – 1964
DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY AND PRACTICING CLINICIANS, THIS BOOK PRESENTS AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF ATTEMPTS TO TEACH THE DEAF FROM BEFORE THE 15TH CENTURY THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURY. A DISCUSSION OF DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES FOR AUDITORY DISORDERS IN CHILDREN INCLUDED INFORMAL TESTING, PLAY AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH TESTS,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Auditory Evaluation, Children
Changes in Speech Production in a Child with a Cochlear Implant: Acoustic and Kinematic Evidence.
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Goffman, Lisa; Ertmer, David J.; Erdle, Christa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
A method is presented for examining change in motor patterns used to produce linguistic contrasts. In this case study, the method is applied to a child who experienced hearing loss at age 3 and received a multi-channel cochlear implant at 7. Post-implant, acoustic durations showed a maturational change. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Case Studies, Children, Cochlear Implants
THE NEUROLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF HEARING AND SPEECH IN CHILDREN.
TAYLOR, IAN G. – 1964
A 5-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF 78 CHILDREN (MINIMUM AGE 11 MONTHS) WHO WERE REFERRED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEAF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, IS DESCRIBED. THE CHILDREN ALL PRESENTED PROBLEMS RELATED TO SOUND OR LINGUISTICS DEVELOPMENT OR BOTH. AFTER A DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HEARING AND THE PATHOLOGY OF DEAFNESS, THE…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Tests, Case Records