Community-driven partnerships with Community-Engaged Research teams bring resources and reliable information to Baltimore residents.

This case study presents an analysis of community-driven partnerships, focusing on the nonprofit Baltimore CONNECT (BC) network and its collaborative efforts with a Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) team of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). BC has built a network of over 30 community-based organizations to provide health and social services in Baltimore City. The study emphasizes the role of CEnR in supporting community-led decision-making, specifically in the planning and implementation of community health resource fairs.

A Concert-Based Study on Melodic Contour Identification among Varied Hearing Profiles-A Preliminary Report.

: This study investigated how different hearing profiles influenced melodic contour identification (MCI) in a real-world concert setting with a live band including drums, bass, and a lead instrument. We aimed to determine the impact of various auditory assistive technologies on music perception in an ecologically valid environment. : The study involved 43 participants with varying hearing capabilities: normal hearing, bilateral hearing aids, bimodal hearing, single-sided cochlear implants, and bilateral cochlear implants.

Self-reported social well-being of children with hearing loss in 2023.

Objectives: To study the level of social well-being for children with hearing loss (HL) using self-completed questionnaires.

Methods: The data sample relates to a total of 22 children representing a new group of children with HL. This new group is defined as HL detected through neonatal hearing screening and fitted with hearing technology when relevant before 6 months, received bilateral cochlear implants before one year of age followed by specific educational training using the auditory-verbal practice.

The Effect of LENA (Language ENvironment Analysis) for Children with Hearing Loss in Denmark including a Pilot Validation for the Danish Language.

This study aimed to investigate whether day-long recordings with Language Environment Analysis (LENA) can be utilized in a hospital-based Auditory Verbal Therapy (AVT) program in Denmark for children with hearing loss and to conduct a pilot validation in the Danish language. A license for the LENA system (LENA SP) was purchased, and trials were offered to three families enrolled in the AVT program. Each family made two day-long recordings with 3-4 months in between and received feedback during the therapy sessions.

Developing a web-based app for non-mental health nurses to assess the mental health needs and risks of children and young people.

There is high demand for specialist mental health services for children and young people in the UK. Non-mental health nurses are well-placed to assess the mental health needs and risks of children and young people to maximise opportunities for early intervention and relieve the pressure on child and adolescent mental health services. This article provides an overview of a service development project to develop a web-based application (app) to support non-mental health nurses when assessing the mental health needs and risks of children and young people.

Explaining neurological factors of hearing loss through digital technologies.

Unlabelled: The study investigated how inclusion of the considerable amount of knowledge generated through basic research in multisensory experiences can be brought into clinical paediatric audiology with a specific focus to enhance understanding of the neurological implications of childhood hearing loss.

Objectives: The overall aim of the project was to investigate how to use emerging technologies to enhance the understanding of the neurological impact of paediatric hearing loss. The specific objectives were to develop an app and to evaluate its ease of use and the understanding of neurology by all types of stakeholders and end-users.

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The introduction of cochlear implants (CI) for pediatric populations with deafness has changed life conditions for deaf children markedly. A new generation of children with CI has emerged, and this review investigates how it has been documented that early intervention with CI and enrolment in family-centered auditory-verbal intervention allow children to close the language gap and develop age-equivalent language before entering school. At the school level, children keep up the language level.

History re-written for children with hearing impairment.

Unlabelled: A new generation of children with hearing impairment (HI) has emerged due to introduction of universal neonatal hearing screening, medical-surgical/technical and educational advances in the field of paediatric audiology.

Aim: The primary aim of the study was to investigate long-term development of language fundamentals of children with HI at school level and analyse associations to several background variables.

Method And Material: The project design is prospective, longitudinal and comparative and was conducted over a three-year period with annual testing of core language, expressive language, working memory and pragmatics.

Growing Up Under COVID-19: Young People's Agency in Family Dynamics.

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the nature of family life in countries across the world. School, and workplace closures meant that families spent more time at home and had to confront new economic, social, and psychological challenges as a result of lockdowns and the greater proximity of family members. Policy, research and media coverage of the pandemic's impact on family life has focused primarily on the economic costs borne by households.

Language Development for the New Generation of Children with Hearing Impairment.

Unlabelled: A new generation of children with hearing impairment (HI) has emerged due to the introduction of universal neonatal hearing screening, medical-surgical/technical and educational advances.

Aim: Investigation of long-term development of vocabulary and social well-being of children with HI, including children with HI and additional disability.

Method And Material: The project design was prospective, longitudinal, and comparative.

Evaluation of a sentence test in noise in children with hearing impairment.

Introduction: School-aged children with hearing impairment (HI) listen and learn in noisy environments. On-going monitoring of speech understanding in noise is essential to adjust clinical interventions accordingly.

Methods: The aim of this study was to assess Dantale II in a paediatric population.

Receptive language acquisition in a pediatric population with Pendred syndrome and non-syndromic enlarged vestibular aqueduct.

Children with Pendred syndrome (PS) and non-syndromic enlarged vestibular aqueduct (NSEVA) represent a group of pre-lingual hearing-impaired individuals with rehabilitation challenges. To evaluate receptive language capabilities in a pediatric cohort with PS and NSEVA. Twenty-four (24) children diagnosed with either PS or NSEVA, were examined using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and compared to a cohort of 55 Danish children with normal hearing, as well as to a mixed group of 29 children with hearing impairment of congenital and hereditary non-syndromal type.

Auditory verbal skills training is a new approach in adult cochlear implant rehabilitation.

Introduction: Outcome after cochlear implantation in adults varies and is affected by many factors. One factor is auditory training after implantation. No national guidelines for adult auditory training currently exist in Denmark.

Language outcome in children with congenital hearing impairment: The influence of etiology.

Objectives: To investigate the possible association between the etiology of hearing impairment (HI) and language outcome in children with congenital HI after an early medical-technical intervention and three years of AVT.

Methods: A retrospective, two-center study was conducted of 53 patients who were divided in four categories of etiology (degeneratio labyrinthi acustici (DLA) congenita hereditaria, DLA congenita non specificata, DLA congenita postinfectiosa and auditory neuropathy). Language outcome was assessed by examining receptive vocabulary (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, PPVT-4), receptive language (Reynell test) and productive language (the Danish 'Viborgmaterialet').

Differences and similarities in early vocabulary development between children with hearing aids and children with cochlear implant enrolled in 3-year auditory verbal intervention.

Objective: The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the implementation of a Nordic Auditory Verbal (AV) intervention for children with all degrees and types of hearing impairment (HI) using all kinds of hearing technology. A first specific objective was to identify differences and similarities in early vocabulary development between children with cochlear implant (CI) compared with children with hearing aids (HAs)/Bone anchored hearing aids (Bahs) enrolled in a 3-year AVprogram, and to compare the group of children with HI to a control group of children with normal hearing (NH). A second specific objective was to study universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS) using the 1-3-6 Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) guidelines.

Auditory verbal habilitation is associated with improved outcome for children with cochlear implant.

Objectives: To study the impact of (re)habilitation strategy on speech-language outcomes for early, cochlear implanted children enrolled in different intervention programmes post implant.

Methods: Data relate to a total of 130 children representing two pediatric cohorts consisting of 94 and 36 subjects, respectively. The two cohorts had different speech and language intervention following cochlear implantation, i.

Experience with cochlear implants in Greenlanders with profound hearing loss living in Greenland.

Objective: Cochlear implant (CI) treatment was introduced to the world in the 1980s and has become a routine treatment for congenital or acquired severe-to-profound hearing loss. CI treatment requires access to a highly skilled team of ear, nose and throat specialists, audiologists and speech-language pathologists for evaluation, surgery and rehabilitation. In particular, children treated with CI are in need of long-term post-operative auditory training and other follow-up support.

Language understanding and vocabulary of early cochlear implanted children.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with the level of language understanding, the level of receptive and active vocabulary, and to estimate effect-related odds ratios for cochlear implanted children's language level.

Methods: The patient material included all children born in Denmark between January 2005 and January 2011, having received a cochlear implant (CI) and with a minimum of 6 months of hearing with their CI (N=94). The participation rate was 88% (N=83).

Significant regional differences in Denmark in outcome after cochlear implants in children.

Introduction: The objectives of the present study were to study regional differences in outcome for a paediatric cochlear implant (CI) population after the introduction of universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS) and bilateral implantation in Denmark.

Material And Methods: Data relate to 94 subjects. A test battery consisting of eight different tests/assessments was performed in order to report the level of audition, speech, language and self-esteem.

Parental mode of communication is essential for speech and language outcomes in cochlear implanted children.

Conclusion: The present study demonstrates a very strong effect of the parental communication mode on the auditory capabilities and speech/language outcome for cochlear implanted children. The children exposed to spoken language had higher odds of scoring high in all tests applied and the findings suggest a very clear benefit of spoken language communication with a cochlear implanted child.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with speech and language outcomes for cochlear implanted children and also to estimate the effect-related odds ratio for each factor in relation to the children's speech and language performances.

Associations between auditory capacity, speech and language, level of communication and parental assessment of children with cochlear implant.

168 children with cochlear implants were assessed as regards to auditory capacity, level of speech and language and communicative skills. The assessments were made by speech and language pathologists and parents. The purpose of the study was to analyse the associations between the four areas and furthermore to analyse associations between professional and parental assessments.