Mentor/s
Dr. Clotilde Dudley-Smith
Participation Type
Poster
Abstract
The presence of hearing loss can cause severe detriments to a child's ability to develop efficient communication skills, which can affect the ability to adopt normal social and educational skills. However, it has been suggested that intervening at a young age can diminish these delays. Several research studies have been conducted to discuss the validity of whether early intervention (EI) yields positive results on communication skills in children who have some degree of hearing loss. The participants, who were utilized in the conducted research, were all placed into intervention programs of different degrees in early stages of their lives. The specific way in which this research was conducted was to look at the effects of not only how early the intervention programs began but also the time in which it was discovered that the child had a degree of hearing loss. Communication abilities were assessed over periods of times to examine improvements and these results were compared to others who had no hearing loss to see if the development was on target with specific ages. Both intervention methods in a group setting as well as individual sessions have been deemed effective. The data concluded through different research studies can be examined to evaluate the efficiency of these intervention programs, and an individual's improvements in regards to expressive and/or receptive language abilities.
College and Major available
Health Science, Speech Language Pathology
Location
University Commons
Start Day/Time
4-20-2018 1:00 PM
End Day/Time
4-20-2018 3:00 PM
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Prize Categories
Best Multidisciplinary Research or Collaboration, Most Creative, Most Meaningful
Is Early Intervention an Effective Method for Preventing Language Deficits in Children with Hearing Loss?
University Commons
The presence of hearing loss can cause severe detriments to a child's ability to develop efficient communication skills, which can affect the ability to adopt normal social and educational skills. However, it has been suggested that intervening at a young age can diminish these delays. Several research studies have been conducted to discuss the validity of whether early intervention (EI) yields positive results on communication skills in children who have some degree of hearing loss. The participants, who were utilized in the conducted research, were all placed into intervention programs of different degrees in early stages of their lives. The specific way in which this research was conducted was to look at the effects of not only how early the intervention programs began but also the time in which it was discovered that the child had a degree of hearing loss. Communication abilities were assessed over periods of times to examine improvements and these results were compared to others who had no hearing loss to see if the development was on target with specific ages. Both intervention methods in a group setting as well as individual sessions have been deemed effective. The data concluded through different research studies can be examined to evaluate the efficiency of these intervention programs, and an individual's improvements in regards to expressive and/or receptive language abilities.
