Reading aloud to children who are deaf or hard of hearing

This study examines the benefits and most effective techniques of reading aloud to children who are deaf or hard of hearing, including an instructional video and booklist for parents.

The clinical evaluation of language functions (CELF): its applicability for hearing-impaired children

This paper discusses the diagnostic battery of the CELF in terms of construct validity and in administration of subtests.

Assessing phonemic awareness skills in hearing impaired students

This paper discusses phonemic awareness and its role in providing appropriate literacy instruction to both hearing and hearing impaired children. The ability of hearing-impaired students to gain phonological awareness skills is examined and instructional models for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness skills are presented. Also included is a checklist to be used to assess phonological and phonemic awareness skills in hearing-impaired students.

Phonological awareness in children who are deaf/hard of hearing

This paper examines the phonological awareness skills of young children who are hearing impaired through rime identification and onset detection.

Applicability of the Test of Visual Perceptual Abilities (TVPA) in diagnosing learning disabilities in hearing-impaired children

This paper studies the validity of the Test of Visual Perceptual Abilities (TVPA) as an indicator of learning problems in hearing-impaired children and how it correlates with other measures of learning disabilities.

Clarification strategies in oral communication for the hearing impaired student

This paper reviews clarification strategies to help repair communication breakdowns in the hearing impaired.

A comparison of physical measurements of pure-tones, third-octave bands of noise and third-octave bands of speech to subjective judgments of audibility threshold, MCL and UCL for three normally hearing listeners

This study investigates the relation between physical measurements of pure-tones, third-octave bands of noise and third-octave bands of speech and subjective judgments of auditory threshold, most-comfortable listening level (MCL) and uncomfortable-listening level (UCL) for three normally hearing listeners.

Mainstreaming, inclusion, and the elementary school age hearing impaired student

This paper presents materials for educators and students, grades K-6, about hearing and hearing impairment that will help prepare them for more successful mainstreaming and inclusion of hearing-impaired children.

Developing a set of materials to teach hearing children about hearing impairment

This paper contains a set of materials to help hearing persons understand hearing loss.

Occurence of autism spectrum disorder in the hearing-impaired population: how to achieve earlier diagnosis

This paper discusses the incidence of hearing impaired children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and methods of diagnosis.

Effect of amplification bandwidth on intelligibility of several different speech samples for a listener with sensorineural hearing loss

This paper examines the effect of amplification bandwidth on speech intelligibility using multiple speech samples.

Examination of parent support groups for newly diagnosed hearing-impaired children, birth - 5 years

This paper examines support groups for parents of newly-diagnosed hearing-impaired children and presents an outline for an effective parent support group.

An assessment of the nonverbal test of cognitive skills for use with hearing impaired children

This paper discusses a study to assess the usefulness of the Non-Verbal Test of Cognitive Skills on hearing impaired children.

Auditory, visual, and auditory-visual recognition of vowels by hearing-impaired children

This paper studies the auditory, visual and combined audio-visual recognition of vowels by severely and profoundly hearing impaired children.

A technique to train auditory and visual memory for speech patterns in young hearing-impaired children

This paper details a technique for training auditory memory for length of speech sounds in preschool children with a profound hearing loss.