Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study
We investigated 34 deaf and hard-of-hearing children with hearing devices aged 8–12 years and 30 typical hearing peers. We used the capability approach to assess well-being in both groups through interviews. Capability is “the real freedom people have to do and to be what they have reason to value.”...
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author | Rijke, Wouter J Vermeulen, Anneke M Willeboer, Christina Knoors, Harry E T Langereis, Margreet C van der Wilt, Gert Jan |
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description | We investigated 34 deaf and hard-of-hearing children with hearing devices aged 8–12 years and 30 typical hearing peers. We used the capability approach to assess well-being in both groups through interviews. Capability is “the real freedom people have to do and to be what they have reason to value.” Speech perception, phonology, and receptive vocabulary data of the deaf and hard-of-hearing children, that were used retrospectively, showed a large variability. The analysis of the relation between clinical quantitative outcome measures and qualitative capability interview outcomes suggests that at this age, differences in clinical performance do not appear to translate into considerable differences in capability, including capability did offer insight into the factors that appeared to ensure this equivalence of capability. We argue that capability outcomes should be used to determine the focus of (auditory) rehabilitation and support, in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
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spelling | pubmed-105164582023-09-23 Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study Rijke, Wouter J Vermeulen, Anneke M Willeboer, Christina Knoors, Harry E T Langereis, Margreet C van der Wilt, Gert Jan J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ Empirical Manuscript We investigated 34 deaf and hard-of-hearing children with hearing devices aged 8–12 years and 30 typical hearing peers. We used the capability approach to assess well-being in both groups through interviews. Capability is “the real freedom people have to do and to be what they have reason to value.” Speech perception, phonology, and receptive vocabulary data of the deaf and hard-of-hearing children, that were used retrospectively, showed a large variability. The analysis of the relation between clinical quantitative outcome measures and qualitative capability interview outcomes suggests that at this age, differences in clinical performance do not appear to translate into considerable differences in capability, including capability did offer insight into the factors that appeared to ensure this equivalence of capability. We argue that capability outcomes should be used to determine the focus of (auditory) rehabilitation and support, in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Oxford University Press 2023-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10516458/ /pubmed/37128638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enad010 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Empirical Manuscript Rijke, Wouter J Vermeulen, Anneke M Willeboer, Christina Knoors, Harry E T Langereis, Margreet C van der Wilt, Gert Jan Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study |
title | Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_full | Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_fullStr | Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_short | Capability of Children with Hearing Devices: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_sort | capability of children with hearing devices: a mixed methods study |
topic | Empirical Manuscript |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10516458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37128638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enad010 |
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