Predicting language skills from early auditory speech discrimination in infants with hearing loss: implications for early management and intervention

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1088931

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Now that newborn hearing checks are available, hearing loss can be picked up soon after birth and hearing aids are fitted shortly after. Although procedures exist for checking that the devices make sounds audible, there is no way to evaluate their effectiveness for supporting a child’s auditory discrimination. This study aims to 1) develop new clinical tools for assessing infants’ auditory discrimination, and 2) determine whether early discrimination predicts spoken language at 3 years of age.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 01-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $706,113.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Care for Disabled

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

auditory neuropathy | hearing aid fitting | hearing impairment | language delay | speech perception

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