• Notable achievements out of the Buckeye Center

  • Determined that the age in which children receive cochlear implants impacts not only their hearing, but also their ability to associate what they hear with what they see (e.g., learn new words).
  • Determined that deafness not only affects auditory and language processes, but also basic cognitive processes measured in the visual modality.
  • Determined that caregivers’ ability to coordinate behavior with a child’s is affected by the child’s hearing status.

   

Current clinical trials, research studies and support

• Children’s Hearing and Language Development Resource Network (CHLDRN) of Ohio Community Collaborative

  Project title: Children’s Hearing and Language Development Resource Network (CHLDRN) of Ohio Community Collaborative
  

  Funding: Oberkotter Foundation
  

  Objective: Build a community collaborative to explore strengths and opportunities for improvement of early hearing detection and intervention services for families in Ohio.

   

• Infant-directed speech and language development in infants with hearing loss

  Project title: Infant-directed speech and language development in infants with hearing loss
  

  Funding: R01 | NIH/NIDCD
  

  Objective: Address gaps in knowledge by investigating how the quantity and quality of speech and language in the home helps normal-hearing and hearing-impaired infants learn new words and develop language.

   

• Parent-child interactions and word learning in young deaf children with cochlear implants

  Project title: Parent-child interactions and word learning in young deaf children with cochlear implants

  Funding: R01 | NIH/NIDCD

  Objective: Investigate the real-time mechanisms of parent-child social interactions in deaf children with cochlear implants and how these interactions facilitate (or hinder) word learning and language outcomes.