Does Otitis Media Affect Later Language Ability? A Prospective Birth Cohort Study.
Conclusions Children with OM detected at 6 years of age in this cohort had average language development scores within the normal range at 6 and 10 years of age. However, there was a small but statistically significant reduction in the rate of receptive vocabulary growth at 10 years of age (on the PPVT-R measure only) in children who had bilateral OM at 6 years of age after adjusting for a range of sociodemographic factors.
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Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Brennan-Jones CG, Whitehouse AJO, Calder SD, Costa CD, Eikelboom RH, Swanepoel W, Jamieson SE Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: research
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