| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Thirty children utilized "Okayama subsidizing hearing aid purchase in mild to moderate pediatric hearing" in 2010. We found in questionnaires that parents of those children think the subsidizing enables them to purchase hearing aids easier and that brings children with hearing loss to better hearing.
We examined 47 children with mild to moderate hearing loss in assessment of language development for Japanese children and analyzed it statistically. We detected that those children have significantly less number of the vocabulary in compared with normal hearing children, and those who have been wearing hearing aid longer(more than 3 years) have more number of vocabulary than no or short hearing aids users. In addition, we found that the better their hearing is, the better they understand the sentence structure.
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