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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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Introduction to the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study: Background, design, sample characteristics

TL;DR: A unique environment in Australia where all children with varied access to universal newborn hearing screening received the same consistent hearing services from a national hearing service provider makes it possible to investigate the effects of access to early auditory intervention on children's outcomes at a population level.
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"Part of our world": Influences on caregiver decisions about communication choices for children with hearing loss.

TL;DR: Four themes emerged from the qualitative analysis of caregiver responses about the most important influences on their decision-making about communication, including children's ability to access speech through audition, communication skills, additional disabilities, and children's own preferences about communication.
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Impact of the presence of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) on outcomes of children at three years of age.

TL;DR: There was no significant difference in performance levels or variability between children with and without ANSD, both for children who use hearing aids, andChildren who use cochlear implants.
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When expectation meets experience: parents' recollections of and experiences with a child diagnosed with hearing loss soon after birth.

TL;DR: The findings point to a need to support parents to form realistic expectations based on current knowledge, and for clinicians to provide improved management of children with hearing loss.
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R: A language and environment for statistical computing.

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- 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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