ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2019
Education and health of children with hearing loss: the necessity of signed languages.
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- Hearing loss prevalence and years lived with disability, 1990-2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.Lancet (London, England) · 2021Pooled it
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- An approach designed to fail deaf children and their parents and how to change it.Harm reduction journal · 2024Review
- Family ASL: An Early Start to Equitable Education for Deaf Children.Topics in early childhood special education · 2023Article
- Development of visual sustained selective attention and response inhibition in deaf children.Memory & cognition · 2023Article
- Language Intervention Instead of Speech Intervention for Children With Cochlear Implants.Journal of audiology & otology · 2023Review
- Global return on investment and cost-effectiveness of WHO's HEAR interventions for hearing loss: a modelling study.The Lancet. Global health · 2022Article
- Use of a Network-Based Method to Identify Latent Genes Associated with Hearing Loss in Children.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
- American Sign Language Interpreters in Public Schools: An Illusion of Inclusion that Perpetuates Language Deprivation.Maternal and child health journal · 2020Article
- Health system requirements for hearing care services.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2019Article
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Abstract
Medical and educational interventions for children with hearing loss often adopt a single approach of spoken language acquisition through the use of technology, such as cochlear implants. These approaches generally ignore signed languages, despite no guarantees that the child will acquire fluency in a spoken language. Research with children who have a cochlear implant and do not use a signed language indicates that language outcomes are very variable and generally worse than their non-deaf peers. In contrast, signing children with cochlear implants have timely language development similar to their non-deaf peers that also exceeds their non-signing peers with cochlear implants. Natural signed languages have been shown to have the same neurocognitive benefits as natural spoken language while being fully accessible to deaf children. However, it is estimated less than 2% of the 34 million deaf children worldwide receive early childhood exposure to a signed language. Most deaf children are, therefore, at risk for language deprivation during the critical period of language acquisition in the first five years of life. Language deprivation has negative consequences for developmental domains, which rely on timely language acquisition. Beyond the adverse effects on a child's education, language deprivation also affects deaf people's mental and physical health and access to health care, among others. Therefore, policies in accordance with the United Nations
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