Improving Spoken Language Outcomes for Children With Hearing Loss

Abstract

The preliminary results of this study support further investigation regarding DDI to investigate whether this method can consistently and significantly improve the achievement of children with hearing loss in spoken language skills.

Teaching language components to deaf/hard-of-hearing and cochlear implant users: a literature review

“…a duration of one year. Two studies were conducted retrospectively, using data from participants exposed to interventions for more than two years 13,34 .…”

“…Regarding the research designs used in the selected studies, most of them adopted experimental designs with between groups measures in 10 studies 13,24,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] and single subject in 11 publications 12,16,17,[20][21][22][23]25,26 . Three studies reported case studies or case series 14,35,36 .…”

“…Seven studies had more than 21 participants 13,[29][30][31][32][33][34] , in which three publications 29,31,33 had hearing participants as direct target of the interventions (e.g., parents, teachers and CI users caretakers) aiming to evaluate its indirect effects on deaf children and CI users' rehabilitation. Two studies were characterized as case studies and only one individual participated of each 35,36 .…”