Service Delivery to Children With Mild Hearing Loss: Current Practice Patterns and Parent Perceptions.
Purpose: This study investigates clinical practice patterns and parent perception of intervention for children with mild hearing loss (HL). Method: Ages at and delays between service delivery steps (first diagnostic evaluation, confirmation of HL, hearing aid [HA] fitting, entry into early intervent...
| Published in: | American Journal of Audiology Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 38 - 53 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Mar2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=121858077&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 121858077 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10590889 5KS jtl: American Journal of Audiology issn: 10590889 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2017 vid: 26 iid: 1 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association place: Rockville, Maryland artinfo: ui: 121858077 121858077 121858077 10.1044/2016_AJA-16-0063 121858077 ppf: 38 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Service Delivery to Children With Mild Hearing Loss: Current Practice Patterns and Parent Perceptions. aug: au: Walker, Elizabeth A. Spratford, Meredith Ambrose, Sophie E. Holte, Lenore Oleson, Jacob affil: University of Iowa, Iowa City sug: subj: Hearing Disorders Therapy Health Care Delivery Standards Parents Psychosocial Factors Perception Practice Patterns Treatment Delay Diagnosis, Delayed Early Intervention Parental Attitudes Human Infant, Newborn Child Female Prospective Studies Hearing Aids Health Screening Multicenter Studies Descriptive Statistics Hearing Tests Interviews T-Tests Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient Kruskal-Wallis Test Male Hearing Disorders Classification Funding Source Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month Child: 6-12 years Female Male ab: Purpose: This study investigates clinical practice patterns and parent perception of intervention for children with mild hearing loss (HL). Method: Ages at and delays between service delivery steps (first diagnostic evaluation, confirmation of HL, hearing aid [HA] fitting, entry into early intervention) were investigated for 113 children with mild HL. Comparisons were made to children with moderate-to-severe HL. Parents of children with mild HL reported reasons for delays and their perceptions of intervention and amplification for their children. Results: Seventy-four percent of children with mild HL were identified through the newborn hearing screen; 26% were identified later due to passing or not receiving a newborn hearing screen. Ninety-four percent of children with mild HL were fit with HAs, albeit at significantly later ages than children with moderate-to-severe HL. Most parents indicated that their children benefited from HA use, but some parents expressed ambivalence toward the amount of benefit. Conclusions: Audiologists appear to be moving toward regularly providing amplification for children with mild HL However, delays in HA fittings indicate that further educating professionals and parents about the benefits of early amplification and intervention is warranted to encourage timely fitting and consistent use of HAs. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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