We have provided some synopses of useful research to help you in your work with deaf children and young people.

Ewing Foundation’s synopsis of ‘Home Literacy Experiences and Shared Reading Practices: Preschoolers with Hearing Loss’ by Jean L. DesJardin,  Carren J. Stikka, Laurie S. Eisenberg, Karen C. Johnson, Dianne Hammes Ganguly and Shirley C. Henning. Synopsis written by our Education Advisor Carole Wood, with kind permission of Jean L. DesJardin. The full article, published in Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, is available to view here.

Ewing Foundation’s synopsis of ‘Assessing Pragmatic Skills Using Checklists with Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Systematic Review’ by Dianne Toe, Louise Paatsch and Amy Szarkowski. Synopsis written by our Education Advisor Helen Martin, with kind permission of Dianne Toe. The full article, published by the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, is available to view here.

Ewing Foundation’s synopsis of ‘Using a Bone Conduction Head-set to Improve Speech Discrimination in Children with Otitis Media with Effusion’ by Tamsin Holland Brown, Marina Salorio-Corbetto, Roger Gray, Alexandra James Best and Josephine E. Marriage. Synopsis written by our Education Advisor Katy Mitchell with kind permission of Tamsin Holland Brown . The full article, published by Trends in Hearing, can be viewed here.

You may also find this research, published in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, helpful: Coaching Caregivers of Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing by Aleah S. Brock and Sandie M. Bass-Ringdahl.

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