Winskel Heather
MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Milperra, NSW, Australia.
Br J Educ Psychol. 2006 Dec;76(Pt 4):727-44. doi: 10.1348/000709905X68312.
Otitis media (OM) or middle ear infection is a common childhood illness and is most frequent during the crucial first 3 years of life when speech and language categories are being established, which could potentially have a long-term effect on language and literacy skill development.
The purpose of the current study was to ascertain the effects of a history of OM in early childhood on later language and literacy skill development.
Forty-three children from Grade 1 and Grade 2, between 6 and 8 years old with an early history of OM and 43 control children, matched for chronological age, gender and socio-economic status, participated in this study.
Children were tested on multiple measures of phonological awareness, semantic knowledge, narration and reading ability. The performance of children with and without a history of OM was compared on the different measures.
There was a general tendency for children with a history of OM to achieve lower scores on phonological awareness skills of alliteration, rhyme and non-word reading, semantic skills of expressive vocabulary and word definitions and reading than non-OM children.
These findings highlight the potential problems an early history of middle ear infection can have on school-aged children's later language and literacy development.
中耳炎是一种常见的儿童疾病，在儿童语言和语言类别形成的关键的头三年中最为常见，这可能会对语言和读写能力发展产生长期影响。
本研究的目的是确定儿童早期中耳炎病史对后期语言和读写能力发展的影响。
43名来自一年级和二年级、6至8岁且有早期中耳炎病史的儿童以及43名按年龄、性别和社会经济地位匹配的对照儿童参与了本研究。
对儿童进行了多项语音意识、语义知识、叙事和阅读能力测试。比较了有和没有中耳炎病史的儿童在不同测试中的表现。
有中耳炎病史的儿童在所有iteration、押韵和非单词阅读的语音意识技能、表达性词汇和单词定义的语义技能以及阅读方面的得分普遍低于无中耳炎儿童。
这些发现凸显了中耳感染早期病史可能对学龄儿童后期语言和读写能力发展产生的潜在问题。
