Bess F H, Tharpe A M
Pediatrics. 1984 Aug;74(2):206-16.
An overview and update are offered on difficulties experienced by children with monaural sensorineural deafness. It is the general consensus that children with unilateral hearing loss experience few, if any, communication and/or educational problems. The medical and educational status of a group (N = 60) of children with unilateral, hearing impairment are described. In addition, the auditory, linguistic, and behavioral manifestations of unilateral hearing impairment were studied in considerable detail for a subsample of these 60 children. The results revealed that approximately one third of the children with unilateral hearing loss had failed at least one grade. Nearly 50% of the group had either failed a grade and/or needed resource assistance in the schools. The small subsample of children with unilateral hearing loss performed much poorer than a matched group of children with normal hearing on both a localization and a syllable recognition task. Finally, the data on behavioral and linguistic manifestations of monaural hearing loss indicate that children with unilateral hearing impairment are experiencing more problems than previously supposed.
本文概述并更新了单耳感音神经性耳聋儿童所面临的困难。普遍的共识是，单侧听力损失的儿童几乎没有（即便有也很少）沟通和/或教育方面的问题。本文描述了一组（N = 60）单侧听力受损儿童的医疗和教育状况。此外，还对这60名儿童中的一个子样本的单侧听力损失的听觉、语言和行为表现进行了相当详细的研究。结果显示，大约三分之一的单侧听力损失儿童至少留级过一次。该组中近50%的儿童曾留级和/或在学校需要资源援助。在定位和音节识别任务中，单侧听力损失儿童的这个小子样本的表现远逊于一组听力正常的匹配儿童。最后，关于单耳听力损失的行为和语言表现的数据表明，单侧听力受损儿童所面临的问题比之前认为的更多。
