Diagnosis and communicative ability in deaf children in the European Community.
The survey of Childhood deafness carried out during 1977 in the nine countries of the European Economic Community (EEC) provided data on the age at which diagnosis is achieved, the patterns of hearing aid provision, the types of school environment, speech and reading abilities, and the use of manual communication.
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004519:Education, Special; D005062:European Union; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008369:Manual Communication; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009790:Occupations; D011932:Reading; D013065:Speech Intelligibility