Opportunities and Shared Decision-Making to Help Children Who Are Deaf to Communicate
| العنوان: | Opportunities and Shared Decision-Making to Help Children Who Are Deaf to Communicate |
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| المؤلفون: | Karl R. White, Louis Z. Cooper |
| المصدر: | Pediatrics. 140 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medical education, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Social change, Audiology, Sign language, Congenital hearing loss, medicine.disease, Persons With Hearing Impairments, Hearing screening, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), 030225 pediatrics, Intervention (counseling), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, Medicine, Communication skills, 030223 otorhinolaryngology, business |
| الوصف: | * Abbreviation: DHH — : deaf or hard of hearing Parents and pediatricians agree about the importance of ensuring each child’s optimal physical, emotional, and social development. Largely because of its impact on communication, congenital hearing loss seriously threatens that development. In deciding how to communicate with their children, the parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), 92% of whom have normal hearing,1 have been torn for many years by the acrimonious debate between advocates of sign language versus advocates of aural and oral education. Fortunately, advances in technology and practice over the past 25 years (eg, newborn hearing screening, digital hearing aids, cochlear implants, and early educational intervention) have dramatically improved the opportunities for children who are DHH to learn communication skills critical to optimal development at levels comparable to their hearing peers. The majority of parents with infants who are profoundly deaf are now opting for cochlear implants, and research about the benefits of cochlear implants and early intervention has mitigated some of the historic debate between those advocating for sign language and those advocating for aural and oral education for children who are DHH.2–5 However, the role of sign language in helping children who … Address correspondence to Karl R. White, PhD, Psychology Department, Utah State University, 2615 Old Main Hill, Education Building # 430, Logan, UT 84322. E-mail: karl.white{at}usu.edu |
| تدمد: | 1098-4275 0031-4005 |
| DOI: | 10.1542/peds.2017-1287 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::2a79f592512bdcd6e6dc3fd2bf149fe4 https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-1287 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........2a79f592512bdcd6e6dc3fd2bf149fe4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 10984275 00314005 |
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| DOI: | 10.1542/peds.2017-1287 |