Purpose: This study aims to examine the clear speaking strategies used by older children when interacting with a peer with hearing loss, focusing on both acoustic and linguistic adaptations in speech. Method: The Grid task, a problem-solving task developed to elicit spontaneous interactive speech, was used to obtain a range of global acoustic and…

Teachers, houseparents, teachers' aides, and parents of students at a school for the deaf in England responded to an attitude questionnaire on advising equally qualified deaf and hearing persons to train for specific occupations. In general, hearing persons would receive more positive recommendations to train for an occupation than deaf persons.…

This article presents results related to the impact on educational support services of the introduction of the first phase of the national Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) in England. This study was funded by the Department of Health and undertaken as one element of a national evaluation of NHSP across a range of domains. It presents…