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Hearing Screening Failure in Reading Impairment (Werfel et al., 2020)
journal contribution
posted on 2020-09-08, 02:02 authored by Krystal Werfel, Laura Peek, Gabriella Reynolds, Sydney BassardBackground: The purpose of this preliminary study was to
explore one potential underlying factor that may contribute to
poor reading outcomes: minimal hearing loss. Additionally,
we compared decoding and comprehension deficits in
students who passed or failed the hearing screening.
Method: Forty-three school-age students completed a
hearing screening and a literacy assessment.
Results: Fifty-four percent of children with reading impairments
failed the hearing screening, compared to only 21% of children
with typical reading. Additionally, students who failed the
hearing screening were more likely to exhibit decoding
deficits; comprehension skills between the hearing screening
groups did not differ.
Conclusions: Thus, children with reading impairments are
more likely to fail hearing screenings than children with
typical reading, and the deficits of those who fail hearing
screenings appear to center on decoding rather than
comprehension skills.
Supplemental Material S1. Pattern of hearing screening fails across participants.
Werfel, K. L., Peek, L., Reynolds, G., Bassard, S. (2020). Hearing screening failure among students with reading impairment: Rate and Relation to specific reading deficits. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-19-00163
