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In this paper, some developmental characteristics of a population of hearing-impaired children are described. The 79 children described are all those born in Greater Manchester in the years 1977-1980 with a mean bilateral sensorineural hearing loss of 25 dB HL or more in the better ear and without additional handicaps or bilingualism in the home. The subjects attended clinics in which comprehensive monitoring of their development was carried out by means of audiological, psychological and linguistic testing and video-recordings of mother-child interaction. In this cross-sectional study of their first clinic attendance at the ages of between 3 and 7, the measures used to define their levels of language ability and intelligence are described. As a means of dealing with the wide range of values, the children were blocked into groups according to their spontaneous language level and the results are reported groupwise.
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Pérdida Auditiva Bilateral/psicología , Pérdida Auditiva/psicología , Desarrollo del Lenguaje , Factores de Edad , Niño , Preescolar , Femenino , Pérdida Auditiva Bilateral/etiología , Pérdida Auditiva Sensorineural/psicología , Humanos , Inteligencia , Pruebas del Lenguaje , Estudios Longitudinales , Masculino , Relaciones Padres-Hijo , Factores SexualesRESUMEN
This paper describes two studies of hearing-impaired children in which a modified measure of utterance length (MLVV), which included both verbal and non-verbal utterances, was used in conjunction with a number of other measures of child language. Faced with the task of assessing the early stages of the spontaneous language of hearing-impaired children, the two authors had devised and developed this measure independently. After both sets of data were complete, it was decided to examine the reliability of the measure and its ability to assess and describe stages in the development of verbal language in hearing-impaired children by examining and comparing the use of MLVV in both studies, and by investigating its relationship to a number of other language measures at different stages in children's development. Of interest is the usefulness of MLVV as an index of early communication development and its relationship to other aspects of language development.
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In this cross-sectional study, some characteristics of the maternal language of a large group of hearing-impaired children are described (n = 74). The children had mean bilateral sensori-neural hearing loss of 25-123 dB HL in the better ear; they were monolingual, suffered no additional handicaps, and at the time of the study were aged 3-7 years old. The language data reported here were obtained by transcribing video-recorded play sessions. Both quantitative and syntactic analyses were applied to the maternal language. The aims of the study were: (1) to describe the distribution of the measures; (2) to establish whether any relationships exist between the children's characteristics (language level, degree of hearing loss, social class, IQ) on the one hand and the type of language used by the mother on the other; and (3) to draw comparisons with maternal language to hearing children. The implications of the findings are discussed and suggestions for further investigation are given.
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This report of work in progress describes the GMC project, an investigation of the language and development of hearing-impaired children born within the Greater Manchester area in the years 1977-1980 inclusive. The aim of the language section of the project is to describe the acquisition and development of spoken language by a complete population of children with sensori-neural hearing loss. Comprehensive audiological, aetiological and sociological background information is kept as well as the results of standardized psychological and language tests and videotaped samples of spontaneous language. Details of objectives and methodology are given in the report.