MARY P MOELLER

..The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between age of enrollment in intervention and language outcomes at 5 years of age in a group of deaf and hard-of-hearing children...

..To examine the consistency of hearing aid use by infants. A goal was to identify maternal, child, and situational factors that affected consistency of device use...

..It is followed by a discussion of existing evidence on reading and writing, and highlights key constructs that need to be addressed for a comprehensive understanding of literacy in these children...

..The need for prospective studies involving a new generation of children with early access to amplification is stressed...

..A secondary goal was to identify measures of early phonetic development that are predictors of later speech production outcomes...

..It was hypothesized that infants with hearing loss would demonstrate phonetic delays and that selected aspects of phonetic learning may be differentially affected by restricted auditory access...

..The objective of this study was to survey the attitudes, practices, and knowledge of primary care physicians in relation to newborn hearing screening and follow-up...

..Findings are discussed in relation to experiential accounts of ToM development and roles of maternal talk in children's social understanding...

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..The current study examines the impact of late identification and reduced audibility on speech and language outcomes via a longitudinal study of four children with mild-moderate sensorineural hearing loss...

..A media advocacy program will also be implemented. The results should promote parental self-advocacy and independence in decision making. ..

..Information also will be re-purposed and expanded to meet the needs of the target professional audiences. The results of this effort should promote parent self-advocacy and independence in decision making. ..

..Three experiments will examine relationships between vocabulary and theory-of-mind skills. The outcomes should provide direction for early interventionists in their efforts to promote nurturing caregiver-child interactions. ..