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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Advance Access published online on October 6, 2008
The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, doi:10.1093/deafed/enn034
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Spoken Language Development in Oral Preschool Children With Permanent Childhood Deafness

Julia Z. Sarant, Colleen M. Holt, Richard C. Dowell and Field W. Rickards

The University of Melbourne

Peter J. Blamey

The University of Melbourne and Dynamic Hearing Pty Ltd


  Abstract

This article documented spoken language outcomes for preschool children with hearing loss and examined the relationships between language abilities and characteristics of children such as degree of hearing loss, cognitive abilities, age at entry to early intervention, and parent involvement in children's intervention programs. Participants were evaluated using a combination of the Child Development Inventory, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and the Preschool Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals depending on their age at the time of assessment. Maternal education, cognitive ability, and family involvement were also measured. Over half of the children who participated in this study had poor language outcomes overall. No significant differences were found in language outcomes on any of the measures for children who were diagnosed early and those diagnosed later. Multiple regression analyses showed that family participation, degree of hearing loss, and cognitive ability significantly predicted language outcomes and together accounted for almost 60% of the variance in scores. This article highlights the importance of family participation in intervention programs to enable children to achieve optimal language outcomes. Further work may clarify the effects of early diagnosis on language outcomes for preschool children.

Correspondence should be sent to Julia Sarant, Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Melbourne, 384-388 Albert Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia (e-mail: jsarant{at}unimelb.edu.au).

Received August 15, 2007; revised June 18, 2008; accepted August 12, 2008


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