2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/05/2019 | 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | Vocabulary Acquisition and Predictors of Accelerated Vocabulary Growth in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing | Narita A/B
Vocabulary Acquisition and Predictors of Accelerated Vocabulary Growth in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Young children typically acquire new words at an astonishing rate, increasing their expressive vocabulary by an average of 35 new words per month from 18 to 36 months of age. Given the strong relationship between expressive vocabulary size and later reading ability, it is important to examine the vocabulary growth trajectory of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and to identify factors that increase the likelihood that their rate of vocabulary learning meets age expectations. In this presentation we will describe the rate and patterns of vocabulary acquisition of children who are deaf or hard of hearing relative to typical developmental benchmarks. Factors that are associated with delayed vocabulary acquisition over time will be discussed as well as child, family, and intervention characteristics that contribute to more typical, rapid, vocabulary learning. This information will be drawn from the National Early Childhood Assessment Project (NECAP) which includes results from over 3,000 assessments on children in 15 different states. Assessments were collected at regular intervals allowing for a longitudinal examination of vocabulary growth from 1 to 3 years of age.
- Characterize the typical rate of vocabulary growth across the birth to 3 period in both children who are hearing and those who are deaf or hard of hearing
- List risk factors for expressive vocabulary delays
- Identify factors associated with more successful vocabulary growth outcomes
Presentation:
18878_10504AllisonSedey.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
18878_10504AllisonSedey.docx
Presenters/Authors
Allison Sedey
(), University of Colorado-Boulder, Allison.Sedey@colorado.edu;
Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and research associate. She works at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind and is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose of this center is to expand public health capacity to gather, analyze, and use intervention and developmental outcome data of children who are deaf or hard of hearing between birth and 5 years of age throughout the United States. The center aims to increase our understanding of factors that impact the outcomes of children who are deaf or hard of hearing at the state and national level.
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Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
(), University of Colorado-Boulder, Christie.Yoshi@colorado.edu;
Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano is a Research Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado-Denver and the Marion Downs Center. In 1996 she developed the Marion Downs National Center. Since 1996, Dr. Yoshinaga-Itano has assisted many state departments of education and public health agencies, schools for the deaf and the blind, and early intervention programs throughout the United States and its territories. In addition, she has served as a consultant for many countries currently developing their early hearing detection and intervention programs, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Korea, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, and South Africa.
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Craig Mason
(), University of Maine, craig.mason@maine.edu;
Craig A. Mason,Ph.D. is a Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods at the University of Maine. He received his PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Washington and his interests include informatics, newborn hearing loss, and quantitative methods. Dr. Mason has been PI or Co-PI on $15 million in grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education. In addition, he has published, presented, and taught on multivariate analysis, multi-level modeling, epidemiological analysis, structural equation modeling, and growth modeling. He has been invited to present on methodology and informatics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and other national organizations.
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Mallene Wiggin
(), University of Colorado-Boulder, Mallene.Wiggin@colorado.edu;
Mallene Wiggin received her Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from University of the Pacific. She continued her studies at University of Kansas and earned her Master of Arts degree in Speech Pathology. Mallene specialized in children with hearing impairment and worked in cochlear implant centers, early intervention, and educational settings prior to completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado - Boulder. Her research interests include speech, language and auditory development in young children with cochlear implants.
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