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Oral Language Acquisition in Preschool Children Who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to compare developmental trajectories of oral language acquisition of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) and children with typical hearing across the preschool years. Thirty children who are DHH who use amplification and spoken language and 31 children with typical hearing completed an early language and literacy assessment battery every six months from age 4 to age 6. The developmental trajectories of each group ’s language skills were examined via growth curve analysis. Oral language skills were lower for children who are DHH than for children with typical hearing at s...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - January 24, 2022 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Discussing Bilingualism in Deaf Children: Essays in Honor of Robert Hoffmeister
Review of: , (2021). Discussing Bilingualism in Deaf Children: Essays in Honor of Robert Hoffmeister. New York, NY: Routledge. Softcover, 250 pages. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 29, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Characteristics of Psychologists Assessing Deaf and Hard of Hearing Clients
AbstractPsychological assessment plays a large part in the practice of psychology. Over the years, steps have been taken towards ensuring ethical and culturally sensitive psychological assessment for underserved populations, but little is known about the current state of the field of assessment of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals. An exploratory survey of school and clinical psychologists who work with DHH clients (n = 30) was conducted to obtain a snapshot of the state of the field. The current article focuses on sociodemographic characteristics, clinical training, clinical experiences, and language abilitie...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 25, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Corrigendum to: Meta-Analytic Findings on Reading in Children With Cochlear Implants
Text of correction Upon the original publication of this article, there was an error in the “Group Differences in Reading Skills” part of the Results section. The final sentence should read “The group differences in fluency were not significant, and the CI group scored marginally lower in fluency tasks than their TH peers (g = -0.67, p = 0.054).” instead of “The group differences in fluency were not significant, and the CI group scored marginally lower in fluency tasks than their TH peers (g = -0.67, p< 0.001). ” This error has now been corrected online. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 23, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Lexical Competition Without Phonology: Masked Orthographic Neighbor Priming With Deaf Readers
AbstractSkilled reading is thought to rely on well-specified lexical representations that compete during visual word recognition. The establishment of these lexical representations is assumed to be driven by phonology. To test the role of phonology, we examined the prime lexicality effect (PLE), the index of lexical competition in signing deaf (N = 28) and hearing (N = 28) adult readers of Hungarian matched in age and education. We found no PLE for deaf readers even when reading skills were controlled for. Surprisingly, the hearing controls also showed reduced PLE; however, the effect was modulated by reading skill...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - December 7, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Executive Function Training for Deaf Children: Impact of a Music Intervention
AbstractSeveral studies have reported poor executive function (EF) development in deaf children with subsequent impacts on their social and academic attainment. This paper describes the results of a music-based EF intervention designed for deaf children and carried out in two sets of primary schools. This is the first classroom-based EF training study with deaf children, and it also incorporates a replication phase. The intervention was a within-subject crossover design, with 29 deaf children aged 7 –11 years who participated in both an EF and an art class control activity, each lasting 10 hours over 5 weeks. Non-verb...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - September 2, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Auditory Disorders in the Classroom
: A Guide for Speech Language Pathologists, Audiologists and Educators, edited by Alan Gertner, is written for professionals who work with students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) or have auditory processing disorders (APD) and are educated in general education classrooms. Itinerant teachers of the deaf, general education teachers, educational audiologists, and speech-language pathologists will find the book helpful in meeting the listening and language needs of the increasing number of students who are DHH who receive all or a portion of their education in general education classrooms. These students use listening a...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 20, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

The First Deaf Board of Trustee ’s Encounters and the 1988 Gallaudet Protests
Review of: (2020).Controlling Our Destiny: A Board Member ’s View of Deaf President Now. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Hardback. 225 pages. $27.95. (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 20, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice
Review of: (Eds.) (2020).Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice. Plural Publishing. San Diego, CA, 934 pages, $89.95 (Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education)
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 20, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Measuring Receptive ASL Skills in Novice Signers and Nonsigners
AbstractWe tested the utility of two standardized measures of receptive skills in American Sign Language (ASL) in hearing adults who are novice signers: the ASL Comprehension Test (ASL-CT; Hauser, P. C., Paludneviciene, R., Riddle, W., Kurz, K. B., Emmorey, K.,& Contreras, J. (2016). American Sign Language Comprehension Test: A tool for sign language researchers.Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 21(1), 64 –69.https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/env051) and the ASL Receptive Skills Test (ASL-RST; Allen, T. E.,& Enns, C. (2013). A psychometric study of the ASL Receptive Skills Test when administered to deaf 3-...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - August 18, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Emotions in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and Typically Hearing Children
AbstractFor deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children living in an environment where their access to linguistic input and social interactions is compromised, learning emotions could be difficult, which may further affect social functioning. To understand the role of emotion in DHH children ’s social life, this study investigated emotional functioning (i.e., emotion recognition, empathy, emotion expression), and its relation with social functioning (i.e., social competence and externalizing behaviors), in 55 DHH children and 74 children with typical hearing (aged 3–10 years;Mage = 6.04). Parental reports on children...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - July 29, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Coaching Caregivers of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: A Scoping Review
AbstractCaregiver coaching is an expected practice in early intervention. However, little is known about coaching with caregivers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, receiving services for listening and spoken language (LSL). A systematic review of 7 databases, the gray literature, and consultation with 7 expert LSL practitioners yielded 506 records for full-text review, 22 of which were ultimately included in the review. Our findings are presented as 3 themes: coaching practices, training for coaching, and effectiveness of coaching. Eight models of coaching were identified in the literature, from which we identif...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - July 28, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Relationship Between Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
AbstractDeaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students face great challenges in becoming proficient readers. Vocabulary knowledge is consistently considered to be an important factor affecting DHH students ’ reading ability. However, the mechanism that underlies the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension in DHH students remains unclear. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the roles of word segmentation and reading fluency in the contribution of vocabulary knowle dge to Chinese DHH students’ reading comprehension. A battery of tasks were administered to 116 Chinese DHH students from Grades...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - July 16, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Simple View of Reading in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults
AbstractThe present study investigated the relative contribution of the two components in the simple view of reading to the reading comprehension skills of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) adults in the Netherlands. Eighty DHH adults, aged between 30 and 80  years old, were tested on word reading, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Regression analyses showed that both decoding skills and vocabulary contributed to the reading comprehension skills of DHH adults, with vocabulary being the strongest predictor. For skilled decoders, th e picture was somewhat different with only vocabulary being a predictor o...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - July 5, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research

Deaf Residents With Intellectual Disabilities During the First Covid-19 Associated Lockdown
AbstractTwo indicators for stress (mood and aggressive behavior) were evaluated in order to investigate the effect of the restrictions taken against the spread of the coronavirus on people who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) and have intellectual disabilities (ID). In three therapeutic living communities, specifically designed for the visual communication needs of people who are DHH and have ID, the mood of the residents is routinely assessed by staff members and every aggressive incident is recorded with the Staff Observation of Aggressions Scale-Revised (SOAS-R). For the 38 residents who were present 8 weeks before th...
Source: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education - June 29, 2021 Category: Audiology Source Type: research