An Introduction to the Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss Study.

ABSTRACT: The landscape of service provision for young children with hearing loss has shifted in recent years as a result of newborn hearing screening and the early provision of interventions, including hearing technologies. It is expected that early service provision will minimize or prevent linguistic delays that typically accompany untreated permanent childhood hearing loss. The post-newborn hearing screening era has seen a resurgence of interest in empirically examining the outcomes of children with hearing loss to determine if service innovations have resulted in expected improvements in children's functioning. The Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss (OCHL) project was among these recent research efforts, and this introductory article provides background in the form of literature review and

SUBMITTER: Moeller MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4704131 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature