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Performance of Children With Hearing Loss on an Audiovisual Version of a Nonword Repetition Task
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In: Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch (2020)
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PURPOSE: The aims of this study were to (a) determine if a high-quality adaptation of an audiovisual nonword repetition task can be completed by children with wide-ranging hearing abilities and to (b) examine whether performance on that task is sensitive to child demographics, hearing status, language, working memory, and executive function abilities. METHOD: An audiovisual version of a nonword repetition task was adapted and administered to 100 school-aged children grouped by hearing status: 35 with normal hearing, 22 with mild bilateral hearing loss, 17 with unilateral hearing loss, and 26 cochlear implant users. Participants also completed measures of vocabulary, working memory, and executive function. A generalized linear mixed-effects model was used to analyze performance on the nonword repetition task. RESULTS: All children were able to complete the nonword repetition task. Children with unilateral hearing loss and children with cochlear implants repeated nonwords with less accuracy than normal-hearing peers. After adjusting for the influence of vocabulary and working memory, main effects were found for syllable length and hearing status, but no interaction effect was observed. CONCLUSIONS: The audiovisual nonword repetition task captured individual differences in the performance of children with wide-ranging hearing abilities. The task could act as a useful tool to aid in identifying children with unilateral or mild bilateral hearing loss who have language impairments beyond those imposed by the hearing loss.
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Forum: Evidence-Based Practices and Outcomes for Children With Mild and Unilateral Hearing Loss
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31913807
https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_LSHSS-OCHL-19-0016
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7251587/
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