2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The effect of wearing hearing aids of mild to pediatric moderate hearing loss and subsidizing hearing aid purchase
| Project/Area Number |
22791604
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Otorhinolaryngology
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| Research Institution | Okayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
KATAOKA Yuko 岡山大学, 岡山大学病院, 助教 (10362972)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 軽度・中等度難聴 / 補聴器交付事業 / 言語発達 / 補聴器装用効果 |
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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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