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A STUDY OF THE HEARING AND RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY OF THE TRAINEES OF AN ADULT TRAINING CENTRE
Author(s) -
NOLAN M.,
McCARTNEY E.,
McARTHUR K.,
ROWSON V. J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1980.tb00081.x
Subject(s) - psychology , audiology , vocabulary , receptive language , training (meteorology) , developmental psychology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , meteorology
Hearing and receptive vocabulary (E.P.V.T. full-range version) of the trainees of an adult training centre have been studied. A high incidence of hearing loss (47.1 per cent) was found. The correlation between receptive vocabulary and hearing loss was significant at the five per cent level for the adult Down syndrome subjects in the study. Recommendations are made on the services required, particularly with reference to audiology, that could significantly contribute to the reduction in the number of hearing-impaired mentally handicapped subjects who are at present in hospital care.