This study examined strategies for initiating social interactions with peers, among 4 children with hearing impairment, aged 33 to 36 months, attending a special early education center or a regular kindergarten. The study investigated initiation type (related to partner's hearing status) and rates of initiation success/failure vis-a-vis hearing and deaf partners. Results revealed (a) more initi...

In the present study an attempt has been made to investigate the attitude of parents of hearing impaired children and parents of normal children towards their children. Parental attitude scale was developed by Schafer and Bell (1958) based on the original inventory designed by Shoben was administered on 120 parents out of which 30 fathers and 30 mothers has children with hearing impaired and 30...

introduction: the feedback provided by auditory apparatus equips normal hearing people with an important controlling mechanism over the speech production processes. the speech of hearing-impaired children is both perceptually and acoustically abnormal. this study tried to compare the formant frequencies of three long vowels in persian-speaking children who used cochlear implant and those who we...

OBJECTIVE The overall goal of this study was to determine the accuracy with which hearing-impaired children can detect the inflectional morphemes /s/ and /z/ when listening to speech through hearing aids. DESIGN In the first part of the study a perceptual test was developed with equal numbers of singular and plural nouns spoken by both a male and female talker. Thirty-six normal-hearing child...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare head and neck alignment in children with visual and hearing impairments and its relation with anthropometrical parameters. Methods: The study was a descriptive, correlational analysis within which the relations between dependent and independent variables have been studied. Thirty children with poor vision, 30 children with hearing loss and fina...