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School-aged Children with Mild Bilateral and Unilateral Hearing Loss: Parents’ Reflections on Services, Experiences, and Outcomes

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  • Viviane Grandpierre; Elizabeth M. Fitzpatrick; Eunjung Na; Oreen Mendonca
  • The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education / Oxford University Press

Independent (academic research supported by a Ministry of Health and Innovation Early Researcher award, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award and a Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Award)

Summary

Parent interviews describe noisy school-gym listening and varied school support; they do not compare venue technologies.

Key findings

  • The study covers 12 Ottawa-area families. The methods describe 11 interviews with one parent and one with two parents, despite the abstract’s description of 12 parents. The Participants section says the children had mild bilateral or unilateral hearing loss and all parents had typical hearing.
  • In the social-functioning results, one parent describes shouting and echoes making it difficult for their child to hear in the school gym.
  • In Experiences in Early School Years, nearly half reported appreciation for school support; four described needing more resources and having to advocate. Parents valued staff equipment checks and instruction, while some reported teachers’ reluctance to use hearing technology in the classroom.

Limits

Full text read in PubMed Central. Small, relatively well-educated sample, parent recollections and no venue-system measurements. Personal microphone and classroom experiences are relevant only to the shared staff-support path. Published online in October 2017, in the April 2018 issue.

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doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enx049

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Viviane Grandpierre; Elizabeth M. Fitzpatrick; Eunjung Na; Oreen Mendonca. School-aged Children with Mild Bilateral and Unilateral Hearing Loss: Parents’ Reflections on Services, Experiences, and Outcomes. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education / Oxford University Press. 31 October 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enx049 (accessed 13 October 2026).

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