Outcomes of 3-Year-Old Children With Hearing Loss and Different Types of Additional Disabilities
Date
2013Author
Ching, Teresa
Crowe, Kathryn
Seeto, Mark
Leigh, Greg
Street, Laura
Day, Julia
Day, Julia
Marname, Vivienne
Thomson, Jessica
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This research investigated the speech, language, and functional
auditory outcomes of 119 3-year-old children with hearing loss
and additional disabilities. Outcomes were evaluated using
direct assessment and caregiver report. Multiple regressions
revealed that type of additional disability and level of maternal
education were significant predictors of language outcomes.
Poorer outcomes were achieved in a combined group
of children with autism, cerebral palsy, and/or developmental
delay (DD) (Group A), compared with children with vision
or speech output impairments, syndromes not entailing DD,
or medical disorders (Group B). Better outcomes were associated
with higher levels of maternal education.