Parents’ questions to clinicians within paediatric hearing habilitation appointments for children with hearing impairment

Aural Habilitation in Severe to Profound Hearing Impaired Children Below 2 years

Eye problems in children with hearing impairment.

PURPOSE To compare the prevalence of refractive errors, amblyopia, and strabismus between hearing-impaired and normal children (7-22 years old) in Mashhad. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, cases were selected from hearing-impaired children in Mashhad. The control group consisted of children with no hearing problem. The sampling was done utilizing the cluster sampling method. All of the ...

Metaphor Performance in Children With Hearing Impairment.

Metaphor comprehension and use were evaluated in children with hearing impairment (HI) who performed within normal age limits on norm-referenced measures of language. Participants were 13 children with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss and 12 children with normal hearing and normal development (10:0 to 15:7 years:months). Three verbal metaphor tasks (comprehension, preference, and com...

Parental Attitudes towards Children with Hearing Impairment

The present study was undertaken to investigate the attitudes of parents towards their hearing impaired children. The sample comprised of 60 parents (30 fathers and 30 mothers) of 0-12 year old hearing impaired children, in and around Mumbai, India.”Parental Attitudes Scale” a self-assessment tool was specially developed for the purpose of the study. The scale has a reliability of .67, consisti...

Developing a Bilingual “Persian Cued Speech” Website for Parents and Professionals of Children with Hearing Impairment

BACKGROUND The use of the internet as a source of information gathering, self-help and support is becoming increasingly recognized. Parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment have been shown to seek information about different communication approaches online. Cued Speech is a very new approach to Persian speaking pupils. Our aim was to develop a useful website to give related...