{
    "abstract": "Six children with profound hearing loss and severe language delay participated in this pilot study. Four of the children used a Nucleus multi-channel cochlear implant only, while two wore binaural hearing aids. All the children had been diagnosed at an early age, fitted with a sensory device soon after, had considerable device experience and had attended an auditory oral early intervention setting. All the children were identified as having slower-than-expected development of spoken language. The study identified a number of potentially contributory factors including: inconsistency of device use and low levels of functioning on conversational attentiveness, speech perception, speech intelligibility, pragmatics, social competence, behaviour and temperament.",
    "authors": [
        {
            "affiliation": "Co-operative Research Centre for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Innovation and St Mary's School for Children with Impaired Hearing, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. m.remine@unimelb.edu.au",
            "firstname": "Maria D",
            "initials": "MD",
            "lastname": "Remine"
        },
        {
            "affiliation": null,
            "firstname": "P Margaret",
            "initials": "PM",
            "lastname": "Brown"
        },
        {
            "affiliation": null,
            "firstname": "Robert S C",
            "initials": "RS",
            "lastname": "Cowan"
        }
    ],
    "conclusions": null,
    "copyrights": null,
    "doi": "10.1179/cim.2003.4.2.73",
    "journal": "Cochlear implants international",
    "keywords": [],
    "methods": null,
    "publication_date": "2008-09-16",
    "pubmed_id": "18792139",
    "results": null,
    "title": "Assessing children with profound hearing loss and severe language delay: getting a broader picture.",
    "xml": "<Element 'PubmedArticle' at 0x7885047714e0>"
}