Quantity of Parental Language in the Home Environments of Hard-of-Hearing 2-Year-Olds

Automated analyses of full-day recordings were used to determine whether young children who are hard-of-hearing (HH) received similar levels of exposure to adult words and conversational interactions as age-matched peers with normal-hearing (NH). Differences in adult input between children in this s...

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Published in:Journal of deaf studies and deaf education 2012-10, Vol.17 (4), p.402-420
Main Authors: VanDam, Mark, Ambrose, Sophie E., Moeller, Mary Pat
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Biological and medical sciences
Case-Control Studies
Child development
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cognitive ability
Correlation
Deaf education
Deafness
Ear, auditive nerve, cochleovestibular tract, facial nerve: diseases, semeiology
Empirical Articles
Empirical Manuscript
Environment
Family Environment
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Handicap
Hearing aids
Hearing loss
Hearing Loss - psychology
Humans
Individual Differences
Interpersonal communication
Language
Language Acquisition
Language Development
Linguistic Input
Linguistics
Male
Medical sciences
Non tumoral diseases
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
Parent-Child Relations
Parents
Parents - psychology
Partial Hearing
Psychology and medicine
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Receptive Language
Regression Analysis
Tape Recording
Toddlers
Vocabulary
Words
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Summary:Automated analyses of full-day recordings were used to determine whether young children who are hard-of-hearing (HH) received similar levels of exposure to adult words and conversational interactions as age-matched peers with normal-hearing (NH). Differences in adult input between children in this study and in a normative database were considered. Finally, factors were examined that may have contributed to individual differences in the input characteristics of families. Results indicated that the NH and HH groups were exposed to similar numbers of adult words and conversational turns. However, both the NH and HH groups were exposed to more adult words and engaged in more conversational turns than the NH children in the normative sample. Considering only the HH group, both quantity of adult words and conversational exchanges were correlated with children’s auditory characteristics. Children’s receptive language ability was correlated with conversational exchanges but not with adult word counts.
ISSN:1081-4159
1465-7325
DOI:10.1093/deafed/ens025