Early natural auditory-verbal education of children with profound hearing impairments in the Federal Republic of Germany: results of a 4 year study

Vocal Expression of Emotions in Normally Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Infants

“…It is known that the early start of therapy is one of the decisive factors for its success. 2,3 For early diagnosis and effective therapy, it is important to know whether and to what extent the early preverbal vocalizations are influenced by hearing impairment. Several studies compared the vocal ontogeny of normally hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) infants (eg, StoelGammon and Otomo, 4 Stoel-Gammon, 5 and Maskarinec et al 6 ).…”

Universelles Neugeborenenhörscreening in Deutschland Wer ist “am Zug”?

“…So sind die Vorteile der frühzeitigen Hörgeräteversorgung allgemein anerkannt, durch eine Vielzahl von klinischen Erfahrungen bestätigt und in zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen belegt [2,8,13,16]. Die konkrete Umsetzung des universellen Hörscreenings ist jedoch nach wie vor Gegenstand der Diskussion, wobei sich die Ebene wissenschaftlich begründeter Faktoren (Untersuchungsverfahren, Organisation der Follow-up-Phase) von der Ebene gesellschaftspolitischer Faktoren (Zusammenarbeit der beteiligten ärztlichen Fachgruppen, Situation der Gesetzgebung) abgrenzen lässt.…”

The Influence of Hearing Impairment on Preverbal Emotional Vocalizations of Infants

“…It is a known fact that early diagnosis and early start of therapy -including hearing aids and hearing training/speech therapy -are essential factors for good skills in spoken language [2,3]. Since the focus of earlier investigations lay on the question of how meaningful referential speech arises out of preverbal utterances, the methodological inventory to study this question was mainly taken from the linguists, and so the prespeech vocalizations were mainly characterized phonetically.…”