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St. John, Miya; Columbus, Georgie; Brignell, Amanda; Carew, Peter; Skeat, Jemma; Reilly, Sheena; Morgan, Angela T. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: Congenital hearing loss is the most common birth anomaly, typically influencing speech and language development, with potential for later academic, social and employment impacts. Yet, surprisingly, the nuances of how speech is affected have not been well examined with regards to the subtypes of speech-sound disorder (SSD). Nor have the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Impairments, Phonology, Speech Language Pathology
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Bavin, Edith L.; Sarant, Julia; Prendergast, Luke; Busby, Peter; Leigh, Greg; Peterson, Candida – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: To extend our knowledge about factors influencing early vocabulary development for infants with cochlear implants (CIs), we investigated the impact of positive parenting behaviors (PPBs) from the Indicator of Parent Child Interaction, used in parent-child interactions during everyday activities. Method: Implantation age for the sample…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology
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Winn, Stephen – American Annals of the Deaf, 2006
This paper examines hearing aid use by 60 congenitally deaf individuals who attended special education units in South Australia. The study indicates that only one-third to half of deaf adults wore their hearing aids in social situations for speech detection. Just over one-third (n = 22) of the deaf adults involved in this study wore their hearing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistive Technology, Deafness, Congenital Impairments