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The University of Western Ontario Pediatric Audiological Monitoring Protocol (UWO PedAMP).
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- Comparing criteria for deviation from hearing aid prescriptive targets in children.International journal of audiology · 2024Article
- Validation of LittleEARS questionnaire in Hindi language.Journal of otology · 2023Article
- EEG Alpha Band Responses Reveal Amplification Benefits in Infants with Hearing Loss.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Children with Conductive Hearing Loss Fitted with Hearing Aids: Outcomes and Caregiver Experiences in South Africa.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2023Article
- Assessment of Speech Perception Abilities in Cochlear Implant Children.Iranian journal of otorhinolaryngology · 2022Article
- [Common tools of auditory function assessment in infants and toddlers].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2020Article
- Preimplant Hearing Aid Fittings and Aided Audibility for Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2019Observational
- Conventional Amplification for Children and Adults with Severe-to-Profound Hearing Loss.Seminars in hearing · 2018Review
- Spoken language and everyday functioning in 5-year-old children using hearing aids or cochlear implants.International journal of audiology · 2018Article
- Relationship of Grammatical Context on Children's Recognition of s/z-Inflected Words.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2017Article
- Relevance of the International Classification of Functioning, Health and Disability: Children & Youth Version in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs.Seminars in hearing · 2016Review
- Stability of Audiometric Thresholds for Children with Hearing Aids Applying the American Academy of Audiology Pediatric Amplification Guideline: Implications for Safety.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2016Article
- Speech sound production in 2-year-olds who are hard of hearing.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2014Article
- Temporal resolution with a prescriptive fitting formula.American journal of audiology · 2013Article
- Outcomes of early- and late-identified children at 3 years of age: findings from a prospective population-based study.Ear and hearing · 2013Article
- Quantity of parental language in the home environments of hard-of-hearing 2-year-olds.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2012Article
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- Predicting Hearing aid Benefit Using Speech-Evoked Envelope Following Responses in Children With Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
This study proposed and evaluated a guideline for outcome evaluation for infants and children with hearing loss who wear hearing aids. The University of Western Ontario Pediatric Audiological Monitoring Protocol (UWO PedAMP) was developed following a critical review of pediatric outcome evaluation tools and was systematically examined by the Network of Pediatric Audiologists of Canada. It consists of tools to gather clinical process outcomes as well as functional caregiver reports. The UWO PedAMP was administered to a clinical population of infants and children with hearing aids. Sixty-eight children were administered the functional outcome evaluation tools (i.e., caregiver reports) a total of 133 times. Clinical process outcomes of hearing aid verification (e.g., real-ear-to-coupler difference) revealed typical aided audibility (e.g., Speech Intelligibility Index). Results for the LittlEARS(®) questionnaire revealed that typically developing children with hearing loss who wear hearing aids are meeting auditory development milestones. Children with mild to moderate comorbidities displayed typical auditory development during the 1st year of life after which development began to decline. Children with complex factors related to hearing aid use had lower scores on the LittlEARS, but auditory development was in parallel to norms. Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance (PEACH) results indicated no age effect on scoring for children above 2 years of age; however, the effect of degree of hearing loss was significant. This work provides clinicians with a systematic, evidence-based outcome evaluation protocol to implement as part of a complete pediatric hearing aid fitting.
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