TY - JOUR
T1 - Talk with me! Parental linguistic input to toddlers with moderate hearing loss
AU - DIRKS, Evelien
AU - STEVENS, Angela
AU - KOK, Sigrid
AU - FRIJNS, Johan
AU - RIEFFE, Carolien
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - This study examined the quantity and quality of parental linguistic input to toddlers with moderate hearing loss (MHL) compared with toddlers with normal hearing (NH). The linguistic input to eighteen toddlers with MHL and twenty-four toddlers with NH was examined during a 10-minute free-play activity in their home environment. Results showed that toddlers with MHL were exposed to an equivalent amount of parental linguistic input compared to toddlers with NH. However, parents of toddlers with MHL used less high-level facilitative language techniques, used less mental state language, and used shorter utterances than parents of toddlers with NH. Quantity and quality measures of parental linguistic input were positively related to the expressive language abilities of toddlers with MHL.
AB - This study examined the quantity and quality of parental linguistic input to toddlers with moderate hearing loss (MHL) compared with toddlers with normal hearing (NH). The linguistic input to eighteen toddlers with MHL and twenty-four toddlers with NH was examined during a 10-minute free-play activity in their home environment. Results showed that toddlers with MHL were exposed to an equivalent amount of parental linguistic input compared to toddlers with NH. However, parents of toddlers with MHL used less high-level facilitative language techniques, used less mental state language, and used shorter utterances than parents of toddlers with NH. Quantity and quality measures of parental linguistic input were positively related to the expressive language abilities of toddlers with MHL.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000919000667
U2 - 10.1017/s0305000919000667
DO - 10.1017/s0305000919000667
M3 - Article
SN - 0305-0009
JO - Journal of Child Language
JF - Journal of Child Language
ER -