“…The introduction of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS), along with the availability of advanced technological and surgical innovations, have heralded signifi cantly improved speech and language outcomes for children with congenital severe/profound hearing loss (HL) (e.g., Ertmer, Kloiber, Jung, Kirleis, & Bradford, 2012;Fulcher, Purcell, Baker, & Munro, 2012;May-Mederake, 2012;Wie, 2010). Of the research considering speech outcomes, reports have been based on broad measures of speech relative to children with lateridentifi ed HL (e.g., Fulcher et al, 2012;YoshinagaItano, 2003;Yoshinaga-Itano, Coulter, & Thomson, 2001), or the accuracy of consonants and/or vowels (e.g., Dornan, Hickson, Murdoch, Houston, & Constantinescu, 2010;Ertmer et al, 2012).…”