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Outcomes of early- and late-identified children at 3 years of age: findings from a prospective population-based study.

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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.
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Objective:To address the question of whether, on a population level, early detection and amplification improve outcomes of children with hearing impairment.Design:All families of children who were born between 2002 and 2007, and who presented for hearing services below 3 years of age at Australian H

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Congenital CMV infection and connexin 26 mutations in childhood deafness : intervention with early cochlear implantation

Eva Karltorp
TL;DR: Early CI intervention is of great importance for children born with profound HI, if the aim is to acquire age-equivalent spoken language development, and knowledge about the child's etiology is important for an appropriate early and correct HI diagnosis, and to identify possible additional disabilities.
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Desenvolvimento da linguagem em crianças com implante coclear: terá o gênero alguma influência?

TL;DR: gender did not influence the development of oral language in children with cochlear implants, in the three linguistic structures studied.
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Cognitive skills affect outcome of CI in children: A systematic review.

TL;DR: The degree of preoperatively cognitive disabilities is associated with the outcome after cochlear implantation, thereby emphasizing why accurate cognitive tests are an important part of the preoperative evaluation of CI and pre-requisite for shared decision making.
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What Clinicians Need to Know About Early Literacy Development in Children With Hearing Loss

TL;DR: Findings from studies of young children with hearing loss suggest that a promising approach to improving reading outcomes is to provide explicit early literacy instruction and intervention.
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Speech and Language Outcomes in Adults and Children with Cochlear Implants

TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide a brief overview of cochlear implant technology, describe the benefits that CIs can provide to adults and children who receive them, and discuss the specific limitations and issues faced by CI users.
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R: A language and environment for statistical computing.

R Core Team
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: Copyright (©) 1999–2012 R Foundation for Statistical Computing; permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and permission notice are preserved on all copies.
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Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

TL;DR: The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) as discussed by the authors is an individually administered, norm-referenced test of single-word receptive (or hearing) vocabulary.
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Language of Early- and Later-identified Children With Hearing Loss

TL;DR: Significantly better language development was associated with early identification of hearing loss and early intervention and the variable on which the two groups differed must be considered a potential explanation for the language advantage documented in the earlier-identified group.
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Early Intervention and Language Development in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between age of enrollment in intervention and language outcomes at 5 years of age in a group of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
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