Comparative analysis of vocabulary in normal hearing children and children with hearing loss included in regular school
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-2724.2025v37i4e73322Keywords:
Hearing-aids, Hearing Loss, Vocabulary, Child, Audiologic rehabilitationAbstract
Introduction: Hearing loss, even mild, limits access to auditory information necessary to develop speech and language, as well as the child’s subsequent social and academic skills, impairing their communication. Purpose: to analyze the difference in vocabulary between hearing children and hearing-impaired children enrolled in regular schools, establishing a matched comparison regarding chronological age. Method: Forty-one children with hearing impairment between the ages of 7 and 12 of both genders, users of individual hearing amplification devices, were evaluated at a hearing health center in the state of São Paulo. Additionally, 41 children with normal hearing, who make up the normal-hearing group, were evaluated. Vocabulary assessment was carried out using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-4). Results: The mean score obtained from the standard score in the receptive vocabulary test (PPVT-4) of children with hearing loss was 56 points, which corresponds to -3DP, and that of the children in the control group was 109 points, equivalent to +1 DP. Conclusion: It was concluded that chronological ages and equivalents in each group demonstrate that in the control group, the subjects tend to have an equivalent age greater than chronological age, the opposite occurring in the group of children with hearing loss. Furthermore, it was observed that this difference tends to increase with increasing chronological age in both groups.
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