The high rate of deaf people in Brazil who are born hearing families led to the questioning about how familiar relationship is established between children and parents. purpose this project research was understand language developed among family members, their stablished according perspective professional area. It through bibliographic addition semi structured interviews. analysis made fluctuat...

Otitis media with effusion (glue ear) is the most frequent cause of deafness in children. We investigated the role of gastric juice reflux in this disease. We measured pepsin concentrations in middle ear effusions from children using ELISA and enzyme activity assays. 45 (83%) of 54 effusions contained pepsin/pepsinogen at concentrations of up to 1000-fold greater than those in serum. Our data s...

Conversion deafness is a somatoform disorder characterized by hearing loss without an anatomic or pathophysiologic lesion. Clinically, discrepancies between behavior hearing thresholds and objective electrophysiologic examinations, such as impedance audiometry, otoacoustic emissions (OAE), and auditory brainstem response (ABR), will raise the suspicion of this disorder. It is judged to be due t...

This study investigated whether deafness contributes to enhancement of visual spatial cognition independent of knowledge of a sign language. Congenitally deaf school children in India who were born to hearing parents and were not exposed to any sign language, and matched hearing controls, were given a test of digit span and five tests that measured visual spatial skills. The deaf group showed s...

T he importance of a family’s well-being in the lives and development of young children is widely acknowledged (Allen & Petr, 1996; Bailey & Bruder, 2005; Bodner-Johnson, 1986; Bruder, 2000; Calderon, Bargones, & Sidman, 1998; Dunst, 2002; Guralnick, 1997; Turnbull & Turnbull, 2001). Part C of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 requires educators and relat...

AIM To update our clinical records of additional difficulties and significant health issues of children receiving cochlear implants (CIs) at the Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme, to investigate possible trends in cohorts of children with the same aetiology of deafness, and to discuss clinical implications. METHOD A written postal questionnaire was sent to parents/carers of 590 children a...

Prior research demonstrates that understanding theory of mind (ToM) is seriously and similarly delayed in late-signing deaf children and children with autism. Are these children simply delayed in timing relative to typical children, or do they demonstrate different patterns of development? The current research addressed this question by testing 145 children (ranging from 3 to 13 years) with dea...

OBJECTIVE To determine the natural history and pathogenesis of hearing loss in children with acute bacterial meningitis. DESIGN Multicentre prospective study. SETTING 21 hospitals in the south and west of England and South Wales. SUBJECTS 124 children between the ages of 4 weeks and 16 years with newly diagnosed bacterial meningitis. METHODS Children underwent repeated audiological asse...

OBJECTIVE To compare performance after cochlear implantation in children with mutations in connexin (Cx) 26 (GJB2) or Cx30 (GJB6) and children with deafness of unknown etiology. DESIGN Genetic analysis and speech perception evaluation was performed in the children with and without Cx mutations who had undergone cochlear implantation. Speech perception performance was retrospectively analyzed ...