TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictors of vocabulary outcomes in children who are deaf or hard of hearing from spanish-speaking families
AU - de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz
AU - Restrepo, Maria
AU - Sedey, Allison Lee
AU - Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by La Caixa Foundation Fellowship (Spain) and by the Disability Research and Dissemination Center through its grant (5U01DD001007, FAIN No. U01DD001007) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded to Dr. Yoshinaga-Itano.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Purpose: The goal of this study was to identify predictors of expressive vocabulary in young Spanish-speaking children who are deaf or hard of hearing living in the United States. Method: This cross-sectional study considered 53 children with bilateral hearing loss between 8 and 34 months of age (M = 24, SD = 6.9). Demographic variables, variables related to the hearing loss, and intervention variables were included in a hierarchical regression analysis to predict expressive vocabulary quotients from the MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas (Communicative Development Inventories; Jackson-Maldonado et al., 2003). Results: Chronological age, degree of hearing loss, functional hearing ability ratings, age of enrollment in early intervention, and the interaction between chronological age and age of intervention accounted for 61.5% of the vocabulary variance. Children who received intervention by 6 months of age achieved significantly higher vocabulary outcomes than children who started intervention later. Conclusion: The children’s mean vocabulary outcomes were below average when compared with hearing peers. This was especially true for older children, children with moderately-severe-to-profound hearing loss, and children who began intervention after 6 months of age. This delay in vocabulary outcomes has the potential to interfere with future reading and academic outcomes.
AB - Purpose: The goal of this study was to identify predictors of expressive vocabulary in young Spanish-speaking children who are deaf or hard of hearing living in the United States. Method: This cross-sectional study considered 53 children with bilateral hearing loss between 8 and 34 months of age (M = 24, SD = 6.9). Demographic variables, variables related to the hearing loss, and intervention variables were included in a hierarchical regression analysis to predict expressive vocabulary quotients from the MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas (Communicative Development Inventories; Jackson-Maldonado et al., 2003). Results: Chronological age, degree of hearing loss, functional hearing ability ratings, age of enrollment in early intervention, and the interaction between chronological age and age of intervention accounted for 61.5% of the vocabulary variance. Children who received intervention by 6 months of age achieved significantly higher vocabulary outcomes than children who started intervention later. Conclusion: The children’s mean vocabulary outcomes were below average when compared with hearing peers. This was especially true for older children, children with moderately-severe-to-profound hearing loss, and children who began intervention after 6 months of age. This delay in vocabulary outcomes has the potential to interfere with future reading and academic outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1044/2018_LSHSS-17-0148
DO - 10.1044/2018_LSHSS-17-0148
M3 - Article
C2 - 30383192
AN - SCOPUS:85064316638
SN - 0161-1461
VL - 50
SP - 113
EP - 128
JO - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
JF - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
IS - 1
ER -