title: Hard-of-hearing children: factors negatively influencing rehabilitation.
abstract: In 78 hard-of-hearing children born in 1983-1985 a set of 14 factors influencing the rehabilitation result negatively was analyzed. As a measure of the success of rehabilitation of the children we employed the sufficient mastery of speech to start education at a public school. Unsuccessful results (statistically significant) were due to the following factors: severity and late diagnosis of hearing loss, late rehabilitation onset, diminished care of parents, delayed intellectual development and additional organic impairments and deafness of the parents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Phoniatrics and Audiology K. Marcinkowski, University School of Medical Science, Poznań, Poland.
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authors.lastname: Pruszewicz
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authors.lastname: Sekula
mesh_terms: D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D012048:Correction of Hearing Impairment; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D014705:Verbal Behavior