The timeline of non-vocal and vocal communicative skills in infants with hearing loss.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study investigates what is the link between early verbal and non-vocal abilities, when does predominantly verbal communicative style occur after the intervention with cochlear implants (CI) or hearing aids (HA), and how predictive it is of later linguistic development in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) infants and children.

Methods

Cohort: children with moderate-to-profound hearing impairment (N = 49, 20 girls, mean age at HA or CI intervention = 15 months, range: 4-35 months).

Measures

Receptive and productive vocabulary at 24 and 36 months and video analysis at 12 months post-intervention. Analysis: Predictive values of total and verbal responses to communicative turns for later vocabulary development were assessed, as well as the relative time c

SUBMITTER: Saksida A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10811201 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature