title: Newborn hearing screening in the Campania region (Italy): early language and perceptual outcomes of infants with permanent hearing loss.
abstract: Hearing loss in children causes a deficit in early perceptive and language skills. The objective of this study was to evaluate early receptive and expressive language outcomes in children with hearing loss, identified by hearing screening, compared to the time of diagnosis. We studied 18 severely hearing impaired children who were divided into two groups according to the time of diagnosis. Evaluation of communicative language ability was carried out at 18 month of age using the "MacArthur Child Development Inventory" questionnaire, while evaluation of acoustic-perceptual abilities was assessed with the Genovese-Arslan protocol every three months following diagnosis. The linguistic communicative and acoustic-perceptual outcomes of hearing impaired children diagnosed before 6 months of age followed those expected for normally hearing children, with a trend of temporal progression of skills that were faster than those of children diagnosed after 6 months of age.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marciano
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Laria
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Malesci
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Iadicicco
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Landolfi
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Niri
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Papa
authors.affiliation: CEINGE- Biotecnologie Avanzate, Naples, Italy; University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy; ; Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati Traverso", CNR, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Franzè
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy;
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Auletta
mesh_terms: D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D015997:Neonatal Screening; D011446:Prospective Studies
keywords: Linguistic communicative and acoustic-perceptual outcomes; Neurosensorial hearing loss; Newborn hearing screening