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1	Improving communication outcomes for children with hearing loss in their early years: tracking progress and guiding intervention
	Davis, Aleisha Claire. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2021
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2	Facilitating language processing for children with hearing loss
	Holt, Rebecca Jane. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2020
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3	The speech of an older preschool bilingual sibling's influence and impact on the language development of a younger potential bilingual infant sibling
	Landsberry, Lauren Inneke. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2019. : © 2019, 2019
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4	Auditory processing and reading in children with reported reading and/or listening concerns
	Gokula, Rakshita. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2019
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5	Benefits of music training for children with hearing loss
	Lo, Chi Yhun. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2019
	Abstract: Theoretical thesis. ; "Audiology Section, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University ; The Hearing CRC ; CCD, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders" -- title page. ; Bibliography: pages 82-94. ; Chapter 1. General introduction -- Chapter 2. Conceptual review -- Chapter 3. Methodology -- Chapter 4. Music training for children with hearing loss improves music and speech outcomes -- Chapter 5. Music training for children with hearing loss : quality of life and psychosocial outcomes -- Chapter 6.Summary and conclusion -- References -- Appendices. ; Children with hearing loss report difficulties in a range of challenging listening situations such as music and speech-in-noise perception and have poorer psychosocial outcomes compared to their typical-hearing peers. Music training has been proposed as a suitable form of habilitation; driven primarily by typical-hearing music training studies that indicate a speech-in-noise enhancement for adults and children. The number of studies investigating the benefits of music training for children with hearing loss is modest, though recent studies have shown improvement for some elements of speech perception such as emotional prosody and lexical tone recognition. This thesis aimed to investigate the music, speech, and psychosocial benefits of a 12-week music training program for children with hearing loss. ; Eleven children aged between 6.13 and 9.24 years (M = 7.48, SD = 1.07) with moderate to profound prelingual hearing loss (5 bilateral cochlear implant recipients, 4 bimodal users, 2 bilateral hearing aid users) participated in this study. The design was a pseudo-randomised, longitudinal study (half the cohort was waitlisted, initially serving as a passive control group). Music training was 12 weeks in duration, consisting of weekly face-to-face group-based music therapy sessions with activities such as drumming, singing, dancing, and improvisation; and a suite of online music apps 3 times a week that consisted of activities such as creating compositions, and identification of high, low, fast, or slow sounds. Children were tested at the following timepoints: double baseline (pre-training), mid-training, post-training, and at follow-up (12-weeks after training ceased). The test battery consisted of the Clinical Assessment of Music Perception to assess pitch and timbre perception, a Music Appreciation Questionnaire, the Australian Sentences Test in Noise, the Spectral-temporally Modulated Ripple Test, the Macquarie Battery of Emotional Prosody, a Question/Statement Prosody Test, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire that provides an overview of behaviours, emotion, and relationships, the Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory—a generic measure of health-related quality of life, the Hearing Environments and Reflection on Quality of Life, and the Glasgow Children’s Benefit Inventory. ; Statistical analyses for the main hypotheses were conducted with linear mixed models, controlling for hearing age, device, and prior formal music training. Double baseline measures (separated by 1-week) were not significantly different, indicating high test-retest validity; additionally, the waitlist group (separated by 12-weeks) were not significantly different, indicating no improvement from natural maturation and development. At the post-training point, statistically significant results were found for: speech-in-noise perception (speech reception thresholds improved by 1.1 dB (p = .036), timbre perception by 8 percentage points (p = .028), spectral resolution by 2 rpo (p < .001), and question/statement prosody by 14 percentage points (p = .004), and various music appreciation measures. Psychosocial outcomes also improved significantly for internalising behavioural problems (p = .001), and total scores (p = .012). Non-significant results were found for emotional prosody, pitch perception, all domains for the Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory and the Hearing Environments and Reflection on Quality of Life. ; The findings suggest even a modest amount of music training has benefits for music, speech and psychosocial outcomes. The results provide further evidence that music training is an excellent complementary means of habilitation to improve the outcomes for children with hearing loss. ; Mode of access: World wide web ; 1 online resource (xv, 137 pages) colour illustrations
	Keyword: children; cochlear implants; deafness; Deafness in children -- Treatment; hearing loss; Music therapy for children; music training; paediatrics
	URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1269785
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6	Infant-directed speech of Australian English mothers and fathers: a high and variable pitch with a more breathy and less creaky voice quality
	Tobin, Elise Juliet. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2019
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7	Children's acquisition of Mandarin tones in context
	Tang, Ping. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2018
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8	Exploring 'attitude' in information for parents of newly identified deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) children in NSW: an Appraisal Analysis of two early intervention websites
	Kecman, Emily. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2017
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9	Autism in the classroom: a conversation-analytic study of lesson beginnings in special education
	Yeo, Siang Lee. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2016
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10	Cortical auditory evoked potentials reveal changes in audibility with nonlinear frequency compression in hearing aids for children : clinical implications
	Ching, Teresa Y. C; Zhang, Vicky W; Hou, Sanna. - : Thieme Medical Publishers, 2016
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11	Nature and enactment of tasks for early English as a foreign language teaching (EFLT): a collaborative research project with teachers in Germany
	Dreßler, Constanze R. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2016
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12	The Use of prosodic cues in sentence processing by prelingually deaf users of cochlear implants
	Holt, Colleen M; Demuth, Katherine; Yuen, Ivan. - : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016
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13	The iPad as a research tool for the understanding of English plurals by English, Chinese, and other L1 speaking 3-and 4-year-olds
	Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Davies, Benjamin; Schembri, Tamara. - : Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016
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14	An investigation into how the acoustics of open plan and enclosed classrooms affect speech perception for kindergarten children
	Mealings, Kiri. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2016
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15	The Development of prosodic features and their contribution to rhythm production in simultaneous bilinguals
	Schmidt, Elaine; Post, Brechtje. - : SAGE Publications, 2015
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16	Grammatical knowledge in children with autism
	Khetrapal, Neha. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2015
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17	Intelligibility of speech produced by children with hearing loss : conventional amplification versus nonlinear frequency compression in hearing aids
	Ching, Teresa Y. C; Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Macdonald, Gretel. - : OMICS International, 2015
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18	The development of speech perception tests for children in the Indonesian language
	Sartika, Dahlia. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2015
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19	Dynamics of bilingual early childhood education: parental attitudes and institutional realisation
	Benz, Victoria. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2015
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20	Hearing aid and cochlear implant use in children with hearing loss at three years of age : predictors of use and predictors of changes in use
	Marnane, Vivienne; Ching, Teresa Y. C. - : Routledge, 2015
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