Language, Speech Production, Functional Performance, and Social Skills of 3-Year-Old Children With Congenital Unilateral Hearing Loss: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Hearing Intervention
This RCT showed that device fitting had no significant impact on outcomes at age 3 years, but early language input has a strong positive effect on language outcomes. This information will be valuable to parents and clinicians considering whether to provide hearing devices to infants with UHL. Interventions to enhance nurturing talk and improve listening in noise should be explored further.
Authors
- Sanna Hou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9956-8963)
- V. Zhang
- Harvey Dillon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7036-7890)
- Christopher Flynn
- Teresa Y. C. Ching
- Linda Cupples
- Greg Leigh
Institutions
- Queensland Health (AU)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Universidade Paranaense (BR)
- Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- National Acoustic Laboratories (AU)
- Macquarie University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
- Published
- 2026-01-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_jslhr-25-00150
- Primary Topic
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00