Predicting language skills from early auditory speech discrimination in infants with hearing loss: implications for early management and intervention

现在新生儿听力检查是可用的，听力损失可以在出生后不久发现，并在不久之后安装助听器。虽然有程序可以检查这些设备是否能发出声音，但没有办法评估它们在支持儿童听觉辨别方面的有效性。本研究旨在1)开发新的临床工具来评估婴儿的听觉辨别，2)确定早期的听觉辨别是否能预测3岁时的口语。

Now that newborn hearing checks are available, hearing loss can be picked up soon after birth and hearing aids are fitted shortly after. Although procedures exist for checking that the devices make sounds audible, there is no way to evaluate their effectiveness for supporting a child’s auditory discrimination. This study aims to 1) develop new clinical tools for assessing infants’ auditory discrimination, and 2) determine whether early discrimination predicts spoken language at 3 years of age.