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Peer reviewedMathos, Kimberly K.; Broussard, Elsie R. – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
Nationwide, there are some 1,055,000 young people under the age of 18 who have hearing loss according to statistics from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (http://www.nidcd.nih.gov). Reported rates of psychiatric disorders for children who have hearing loss range from 15.4% to 54% (Hindley, 1997). Selected…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Communication Disorders, American Sign Language, Hearing Impairments
