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HEARing CRC Profile for Ms Christa Carey
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Role
PhD Student
Contacts
Biography
HEARing CRC Supervisor: Shani Dettman
HEARing CRC Project: R4.2.2
Title: Approaches to enhancing habilitation in children.
Detail: This prospective study will investigate language, speech and literacy outcomes for triads of children with hearing impairment who utilise cochlear implants and are enrolled in one of three types of early intervention programs:
- Auditory-verbal
- Oral/aural
- Bilingual/aural with sign support
Subjects will be matched for age of implantation, age of intervention, maternal education, family socio-economic status and non-verbal intellectual ability. Measures of length of intervention, parental involvement and communicative reciprocity will also be taken.
It is hypothesised that early intervention (before 12 months) and long term early intervention (greater than 2 years) will improve language outcomes regardless of type of intervention.
Projects
This individual is either a PhD student or is not involved directly in HEARing CRC research project work at this time.