Research into haptic picture perception has mostly concerned adult participants, and little is known about haptic picture perception in visually impaired and sighted children. In the present study, we compared 13 visually impaired children (early blind and low vision) aged 9-10 years and 13 agematched blindfolded sighted children on their ability to identify raised-line pictures of common objec...

The hypothesis-testing abilities of 15 language-impaired and 15 normally developing children matched for mental age were investigated using discrimination-learning tasks. The subjects in both groups were presented with two sets of discrimination-learning problems. One set of problems featured explicit input concerning the correct response choice. The other set of problems featured nonexplicit i...

background and aim: hearing impaired students experience binaural hearing like normal peers and school age is challenging time for using dichotic listening. lack of research was found on relationship of persian hearing impair­ed children with central auditory processing (cap). one of the aims of this study was a comparison between persian dichotic digit test (ddt) score in children with mild an...

OBJECTIVES To review the oesophagogastroduodenoscopy findings in children with severe neurological impairment and 'normal' children, over a 7-year period from 2000 to 2007. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Paediatric Unit of Caritas Medical Centre, Hong Kong. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The frequencies of Helicobacter pylori status, peptic ulceration, and oesophagitis were compared. The diag...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Poor oral health among children with impaired hearing has been reported frequently due to lack of communication skills and effective health educations. In this study, we assessed the effect of two training methods on short-term oral health outcomes among children with impaired hearing.METHODS: In this experimental study, 80 hearing impairment (HI) student aged 7-19 years old...

introduction: the family of each hearing-impaired child has its own cultural, social, educational, and financial background, and its own special needs. the objectives of our study were to explore the information and support needs of parents of children with severe-to-profound hearing impairment and to investigate the effects of the parents’ level of education and economic status on the score at...

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate children's processing dysphonic speech in a realistic classroom setting, under the influence added noise. Method Typically developing 6-year-old primary school children performed two listening tasks their regular classrooms: phoneme discrimination task assess perception and sentence–picture matching comprehension. Speech stimuli were played back ...