October 3, 2012

Keeping healthcare professionals up to date


This morning Kate Crowe, my PhD student received this email about her recently published journal article:
"Congratulations! We are writing to inform you that your article 'The Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of 3-Year-Old Children with Hearing Loss' in Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education was featured on our www.MDLinx.com site today. MDLinx is the world's most up-to-date index of articles that matter in the daily lives of physicians and other healthcare professionals. Every day we send almost 1,000,000 free briefings across 35 specialty areas. Your article was assigned to the following specialties: Pediatrics, Otolaryngology, Medical Student, Physician Assistant. You can see your article by clicking here: http://www.mdlinx.com/pediatrics/news-article.cfm/4228675 "

Here is what it says:

"The Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of 3-Year-Old Children with Hearing Loss
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 10/02/2012

Crowe K et al. – The majority of the 406 children used spoken English at home; however, 28 other languages also were spoken. The findings of the study have implications for the development of resources and the provision of early education services to the families of children with hearing loss, especially where the caregivers use a language that is not the lingua franca of their country of residence.
Read more: http://www.mdlinx.com/otolaryngology/news-article.cfm/4228675/hearing-losschildren#ixzz28BvM3sC7"