Julia Day

TL;DR: Whereas the effect of age of hearing aid fitting on child outcomes was weak, a younger age at cochlear implant switch-on was significantly associated with better outcomes for children with cochLear implants at 3 years of age.

TL;DR: Language ability and everyday functioning of 133 children with hearing impairment who were evaluated at 3 years of age, as part of the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study are reported.

TL;DR: Investigation of speech, language, and functional auditory outcomes of 119 3-year-old children with hearing loss and additional disabilities revealed that type of additional disability and level of maternal education were significant predictors of language outcomes.

TL;DR: The relationship between PA and reading was specific to reading and did not generalize to another academic ability, math reasoning, and a range of demographic variables, including gender, degree of hearing loss, communication mode, type of sensory device, age at fitting of sensory devices, and level of maternal education.

TL;DR: Interim findings of a prospective study that examines longitudinal outcomes of early- and later-identified children with hearing impairment in Australia demonstrated that children who received a cochlear implant before 12 months of age developed normal language skills and at a rate that is comparable to normal-hearing children.