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ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2020

Parental Language Input to Children With Hearing Loss: Does It Matter in the End?

Susan Nittrouer, Joanna H Lowenstein, Joseph Antonelli

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In one paragraph

Article in Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05512000 (Increasing Word Learning Efficiency in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Through Retrieval Practice), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05512000 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Increasing Word Learning Efficiency in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Through Retrieval Practice

TypeinterventionalSponsorVanderbilt University Medical CenterRan2023 to 2025Enrolled13ConditionsHearing Loss, Language ImpairmentArmsFeedback with massed trials, Feedback with spaced trials, No feedback with massed trials, No feedback with spaced trials
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Hearing and early life adversity: effects of developmental stress on sensory processing.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  7. Speech Delay and Hearing Rehabilitation Disparities in Children With Hearing Loss.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  9. SLPs' perceptions of language learning myths about children who are DHH.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2024
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  17. Differential At-Risk Pediatric Outcomes of Parental Sensitivity Based on Hearing Status.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Susan NittrouerDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Joanna H LowensteinDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Joseph AntonelliDepartment of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville.
University of Florida · US

Funding

Early Development of Children With Hearing LossR01DC006237 · NIDCD · UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY · PI NITTROUER, SUSAN · 2003 to 2014
$5.0M
Spoken Language in Adolescents with Hearing LossR01DC015992 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI NITTROUER, SUSAN · 2017 to 2019
$1.6M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006237NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015992
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose Parental language input (PLI) has reliably been found to influence child language development for children at risk of language delay, but previous work has generally restricted observations to the preschool years. The current study examined whether PLI during the early years explains variability in the spoken language abilities of children with hearing loss at those young ages, as well as later in childhood. Participants One hundred children participated: 34 with normal hearing, 24 with moderate losses who used hearing aids (HAs), and 42 with severe-to-profound losses who used cochlear implants (CIs). Mean socioeconomic status was middle class for all groups. Children with CIs generally received them early. Method Samples of parent-child interactions were analyzed to characterize PLI during the preschool years. Child language abilities (CLAs) were assessed at 48 months and 10 years of age. Results No differences were observed across groups in how parents interacted with their children. Nonetheless, strong differences across groups were observed in the effects of PLI on CLAs at 48 months of age: Children with normal hearing were largely resilient to their parents' language styles. Children with HAs were most influenced by the amount of PLI. Children with CIs were most influenced by PLI that evoked child language and modeled more complex versions. When potential influences of preschool PLI on CLAs at 10 years of age were examined, those effects at preschool were replicated. When mediation analyses were performed, however, it was found that the influences of preschool PLI on CLAs at 10 years of age were partially mediated by CLAs at preschool. Conclusion PLI is critical to the long-term spoken language abilities of children with hearing loss, but the style of input that is most effective varies depending on the severity of risk for delay.

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Child LanguageParent-Child RelationsAdultChildChild, PreschoolCochlear ImplantsFemaleHearing LossHumansLanguage Development DisordersMaleParentingParentsSpeech IntelligibilityVerbal LearningVocabulary

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PMID31834998
PMCPMC7213486
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