Usability of a Mobile App for Improving Literacy in Children With Hearing Impairment: Focus Group Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Children with hearing loss, even those identified early and who use hearing aids or cochlear implants, may face challenges in developing spoken language and literacy. This can lead to academic, behavioral, and social difficulties. There are apps for healthy children to improve their spoken language and literacy and apps that focus on sign language proficiency for children with hearing loss, but these apps are limited for children with hearing loss. Therefore, we have developed an app called Hear Me Read, which uses enhanced digital stories as therapy tools for speech, language, and literacy for children with hearing loss. The platform has therapist and parent/child modes that allow (1) the selection of high-quality, illustrated digital stories by a speech-language pathologist, p

SUBMITTER: DeForte S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7290449 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature