| Title: |
Quantity of Parental Language in the Home Environments of Hard-of-Hearing 2-Year-Olds |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
VanDam, Mark; Ambrose, Sophie E.; Moeller, Mary Pat |
| Source: |
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. Fall 2012 17(4):402-420. |
| Availability: |
Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, UK. Tel: +44-1865-353907; Fax: +44-1865-353485; e-mail: jnls.cust.serv@oxfordjournals.org; Web site: http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Physical Description: |
PDF |
| Page Count: |
19 |
| Publication Date: |
2012 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: |
Family Environment; Toddlers; Deafness; Partial Hearing; Parents; Linguistic Input; Receptive Language; Individual Differences; Language Acquisition; Correlation |
| DOI: |
10.1093/deafed/ens025 |
| ISSN: |
1081-4159 |
| Abstract: |
Automated analyses of full-day recordings were used to determine whether young children who are hard-of-hearing (HH) received similar levels of exposure to adult words and conversational interactions as age-matched peers with normal-hearing (NH). Differences in adult input between children in this study and in a normative database were considered. Finally, factors were examined that may have contributed to individual differences in the input characteristics of families. Results indicated that the NH and HH groups were exposed to similar numbers of adult words and conversational turns. However, both the NH and HH groups were exposed to more adult words and engaged in more conversational turns than the NH children in the normative sample. Considering only the HH group, both quantity of adult words and conversational exchanges were correlated with children's auditory characteristics. Children's receptive language ability was correlated with conversational exchanges but not with adult word counts. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2012 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ981090 |
| Database: |
ERIC |