LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Study of Performance of Children with History of Ear Infection
on Linguistic Profile Test

Binoy Shany M.S., M.Sc. Speech, Language & Hearing, Ph.D. Scholar
Dr. T. A. Subbarao, Ph.D.
Thushara M.K., BASLP


Introduction

Hearing is critical to speech and language development, communication, and learning. Infants show an inherent interest in the communicational aspects of the environment: they are selectively sensitive to human voices and faces. Nonetheless, language acquisition is a very long and complex process, some of its pre-requisites being normal hearing and auditory perception, development of fine motor control of the articulatory apparatus, and ability to develop mental representations of environmental objects (Stark & Gofffman, 1996).

Language acquisition is arbitrarily subdivided into two major stages. The pre-speech period, extending from birth to 18 months of age, is characterized by language comprehension prevailing over production, with only initial skills of production emerging. Most probably, first infants learn to recognize prosodic aspects of speech, followed by distinguishing short words, from which even finer structures of word components are later differentiated (Best, 1994). During this period, infants become tuned to perceiving sounds in their linguistic environment better than those belonging to other languages (Werker & Lalonde, 1988; Kuhl, 1991; Kuhl et al, 1992).

The verbal stage of early language development, lasting from 18 months to about 3 years of age, is marked by a dramatic increase in both language comprehension and production. During human development a period appears during which normal auditory input is crucial for a later development of optimal auditory function. In humans, the first three years of life are important for language development (Meyuk, 1996; cited in Gravel & Ruben, 1996).

One of the first reports on the developmental effects of early ear disease was made by the psychologist working with the language learning problems (Eisen, 1962; cited in Northern & Downs, 2002). Hearing loss, or deafness, is the partial or total inability to hear sound in one or both ears. Early history of fluctuating ear infection such as otitis media which causes conductive type of hearing loss disturbs the hearing mechanism which leads to significant reduction in the hearing sensitivity. The reduced auditory input, if in the early years of life when the auditory neural system is still maturing, may adversely influence the structural as well as functional development of the system which affects speech, language and communication. Children with listening difficulties due to hearing loss or auditory processing problems continue to be an under identified and underserved population.


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Binoy Shany M.S., M.Sc. Speech, Language & Hearing, Ph.D. Scholar
Assistant Professor
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Malady Court, Kavoor
Mangalore-575015
Karnataka
India
shany003@yahoo.com

Dr. T. A. Subbarao, Ph.D.
Director
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Malady Court, Kavoor
Mangalore-575015
Karnataka
India
subbaraota@yahoo.com

Thushara M.K., BASLP
Assistant Lecturer
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Malady Court, Kavoor
Mangalore-575015
Karnataka
India
thusharabinoy@yahoo.com


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