Journal article
Device Use Among Spanish-English Bilingual and English Monolingual Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research, Vol.68(1), pp.282-300
01/02/2025
DOI: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00197
PMCID: PMC11842041
PMID: 39652715
Abstract
This report compares device use in a cohort of Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children who are deaf and hard of hearing, including children fitted with traditional hearing aids, cochlear implants (CIs), and/or bone-conduction hearing devices.
Participants were 84 Spanish-English bilingual children and 85 English monolingual children from clinical sites across the United States. The data represent a subset obtained in a larger clinical trial. Device use obtained via data logging was modeled as a function of language group, device type, child age, sex, and parental education.
Among children with traditional hearing aids, bilingual children wore their devices significantly fewer hours per day than monolingual children, but this group difference was not observed for children with CIs or bone-conduction hearing devices. In the monolingual group, older children wore their devices significantly more hours than younger children, but this effect of age was not present in the bilingual group. Parent report was consistent with data logging for bilingual and monolingual children.
Spanish-English bilingual hearing aid users wore their devices less than their English monolingual peers, particularly among older children. This group effect was not observed for children with CIs or bone-conduction hearing devices. Additional studies are needed to identify factors that contribute to device use among bilingual children with hearing aids.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Device Use Among Spanish-English Bilingual and English Monolingual Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Creators
- Kathryn B WisemanTiana M CowanLauren CalandruccioElizabeth A WalkerBarbara RodriguezJacob J OlesonRyan W McCreeryLori J LeiboldEmily Buss
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of speech, language, and hearing research, Vol.68(1), pp.282-300
- DOI
- 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00197
- PMID
- 39652715
- PMCID
- PMC11842041
- NLM abbreviation
- J Speech Lang Hear Res
- ISSN
- 1092-4388
- eISSN
- 1558-9102
- Publisher
- AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
- Grant note
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: R01 DC015056, T32 DC000013
Funding for this project was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grants R01 DC015056 (PIs: Leibold and Buss) and T32 DC000013 (PI: Chatterjee) . This work would not be possible without the children and families who partici-pated in the Children's English/Spanish Speech Recognition Study and the clinicians who supported data collection. Dawna Lewis provided administrative support and consult-ing during construction of this manuscript. Manuel Vicente, Suresh Portillo, and Margaret Miller assisted with data col-lection. These results were previously presented at the Meet-ing of the American Auditory Society in February 2023.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 12/09/2024
- Date published
- 01/02/2025
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Biostatistics; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984756247702771
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