Word Learning in Children with Hearing Loss

Question 1

In the UK, how many children are born deaf?

Answer 1

1-2 of every 1000 children and 90% to hearing parents

Question 2

What are the common causes of hearing loss?

Answer 2

Infections, premature birth, low birth weight, birth injuries, drug and alcohol use while pregnant, maternal diabetes, high blood pressure while pregnant and genetics

Question 3

What do children with mild to moderate hearing loss get?

Answer 3

Hearing aids

Question 4

What do children with severe to profound hearing loss get?

Answer 4

Cochlear implant

Question 5

What are the predictors of language outcome in children with hearing loss?

Answer 5

Audiological, demographic, environmental factors and language input

Question 6

What is correlation between vocabulary size and children with hearing loss?

Answer 6

They are more likely to have a smaller vocabulary size than their age matched peers

Question 7

What is the PPVT test?

Answer 7

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

Question 8

What is the ROWPVT test?

Answer 8

Receptive one-word picture vocabulary test?

Question 9

What is done in PPVT vs ROWPVT?

Answer 9

Productive vs receptive vocabulary - all children were between 2 and 4 years old and were given tests again 6 months later

Question 10

How can 7.7 month old infants segment words?

Answer 10

Using predominant stress patterns of their native language - infants familiarised with words such as kingdom listened longer to passages containing these words

Question 11

How was the McGurk effect investigated and sample ?

Answer 11

In deaf children’s ability to fuse conflicting auditory and visual information in speech perception
Group 1 - 5-14 years, were profoundly deaf from brith and had a minimum of 1 year of cochlear implant experience
Group 2 - age matched normal hearing children

Question 12

What were participants in the McGurk effect asked to do?

Answer 12

Watch and listen to audiovisual stimulus and to state the perceived syllable