Instruments for evaluating the parental emotional status and ecological support systems among parents who considered cochlear implantation for their children with hearing loss: A scoping review.

Objectives: Parents of children diagnosed with severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss may experience a range of emotions owing to a lack of knowledge and experience in dealing with such children. However, most audiology clinics only attend to children with deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) and not their parents. Thus, parents' emotional and support needs are frequently excluded from the intervention sessions, making their own needs invisible.

Hearing aid wear time and its impact on vocabulary in preschoolers with moderately severe to profound hearing loss.

Objective: This study aimed to explore how the consistency of hearing aid (HA) use impacts vocabulary performance in children with moderately severe to profound hearing loss and determine the amount of HA use time associated with better vocabulary outcomes.

Design: Personal wear time percentage (WTP) was an indicator of HA use consistency, and the information on HA wear time was collected from both parent reports and datalogs. Pearson's correlations were performed to investigate the associations between hearing loss severity, WTP and vocabulary performance.

Does the duration matter? Effect of cochlear implantation on language development in Mandarin-speaking children with hearing loss.

Objective: Several studies have shown that cochlear implantation (CI) can influence language development in children with severe-to-profound hearing loss. However, whether the age of implantation and duration of CI use influence language development remains unclear, particularly in Mandarin-speaking children with hearing loss. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of CI-related variables on language development in these children.

Children With Unilateral Hearing Loss After Newborn Hearing Screening in Taiwan.

Purpose: We explored the intervention characteristics and language outcomes of children with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) in Taiwan after the implementation of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) to highlight changes in attitudes and actions toward hearing-related treatments.

Method: Data of 132 children with UHL in birth cohorts from 2012 to 2019 were included. This retrospective study examined differences in age at identification, hearing aid (HA) fitting, and seeking supportive services.

Determination of language performance by discriminant function analysis in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder.

Objective: Characteristics of the audiological performance of children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) have been identified; however, studies regarding factors influencing their language development, especially those related to aural-oral rehabilitation, are relatively few. This study aimed to investigate classification functions among the factors regarding audiological, interventional (rehabilitation) and demographic variables that can help determine group membership in language performance for Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with ANSD.

Methods: Children with ANSD aged 3-6 years (n = 27) enrolled in an auditory-verbal therapy were recruited.

Developing new scales for assessing parents' aural and oral rehabilitation skills to interact with children with hearing loss.

Objective: Scales for evaluating the teaching and behavioural skills of parents enrolled in aural and oral rehabilitation programs for children with hearing loss are lacking. This study developed and validated scales for assessing parental teaching and behavioural skills of those parents for use in guiding their child to develop language and communication skills.

Design: Scales were constructed and evaluated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.

Newborn hearing screening and early auditory-based treatment in Taiwan: action trends of families with children who are hearing impaired.

Objective: To explore the trends in actions and factors influencing families of children with hearing loss, regarding early treatment following the implementation of a newborn hearing screening (NHS) in Taiwan.

Design: A retrospective study was conducted by extracting data from the treatment histories of families with children who had hearing loss and who were contacted and assessed by the non-profit organisation (NPO). Children born between 2012 and 2018 were included.