Kingsbury Sarah, Khvalabov Nicole, Stirn Jonathan, Held Cara, Fleckenstein Stephanie M, Hendrickson Kristi, Walker Elizabeth A
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Perspect ASHA Spec Interest Groups. 2022 Aug;7(4):1060-1071. doi: 10.1044/2021_persp-21-00188. Epub 2022 Jan 20.
We review the evidence regarding barriers to hearing health care for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
There are considerable data to suggest that hearing health care disparities constitute a major factor in loss to follow-up or documentation for children going through the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention process. Families are affected by a combination of factors underlying these disparities, resulting in delayed care and suboptimal developmental outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
To address the socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistic inequities seen in the diagnosis and management of childhood hearing loss, pediatric audiologists and speech-language pathologists have a responsibility to provide culturally responsive practice to their individual clients and their families, as well as advocate for substantive changes at the policy level that impact their clients' daily lives.
我们回顾了有关聋或重听儿童听力保健障碍的证据。
有大量数据表明，听力保健差异是导致接受早期听力检测与干预的儿童失访或缺乏记录的一个主要因素。家庭受到这些差异背后多种因素的综合影响，导致聋或重听儿童的护理延迟以及发育结果不理想。
为解决儿童听力损失诊断和管理中出现的社会经济、文化和语言不平等问题，儿科听力学家和言语语言病理学家有责任为其个体客户及其家庭提供具有文化敏感性的服务，并倡导在政策层面进行实质性变革，以影响其客户的日常生活。
