Effectiveness of Educational Audiology on the Language Development of Hearing Handicapped Children. Final Report

Two groups of hard of hearing children entered educational audiology programs between the ages of 6 to 42 months. Of these, 12 children in a unisensory program (U-) and 16 in a multisensory program (M-) were evaluated for speech and language development after they had reached their fifth birthdays....

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Main Author Stewart, Joseph L
Format Publication
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.12.1965
Subjects
Articulation (Speech)
Auditory Training
Exceptional Child Research
Group Therapy
Hearing Aids
Hearing Impairments
Language Acquisition
Multisensory Learning
Nursery Schools
Parent Counseling
Parent Participation
Partial Hearing
Preschool Children
Preschool Education
Program Evaluation
Speech Skills
Testing
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Summary:Two groups of hard of hearing children entered educational audiology programs between the ages of 6 to 42 months. Of these, 12 children in a unisensory program (U-) and 16 in a multisensory program (M-) were evaluated for speech and language development after they had reached their fifth birthdays. Children in the experimental U-group were first tested for hearing and fitted with an aid, then were given auditory training at home and in group therapy sessions. At age 3, they were evaluated for placement in an enriched nursery school program, which also trained them primarily through the auditory sense. Guidance and psychological counseling were provided for the parents. Results indicated that the U-group was markedly superior on all measures of speech and language acquisition, although less so on the Templin-Darley articulation test. On all other measures (mean length of responses, mean of five longest responses, number of one-word responses, number of different words, and structural complexity score), results for the U-group appeared to indicate the advisability of unisensory management. Findings suggested that U-management may be of most benefit to children whose residual hearing extends into the high frequencies and whose hearing losses are relatively flat. (JD)