Multilingual children with hearing loss: Communication and choice

This morning Kate Crowe submitted her PhD titled: Multilingual children with hearing loss: Communication and choice. She has been supervised by myself, Associate Professor David McKinnon (CSU), Dr Loraine Fordham (CSU), and Dr Teresa Ching (Australian Hearing). Her thesis contains 7 publications (see below) with commentary binding it together. During her PhD she worked with over 400 children and their families within the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study. Congratulations Kate!

Kate with her submitted thesis!

1. Crowe, K. (2012). Hearing loss in children: An overview for educators. Special Education Perspectives, 21(1), 29-45.
2. Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (in press). A systematic review of cross-linguisticand multilingual speech and language outcomes for children with hearing loss. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2012.75868
3. Crowe, K., McLeod, S., & Ching, T. Y. C. (2012). The cultural and linguistic diversity of 3-year-old children with hearing loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 17(4), 421-438. doi: 10.1093/deafed/ens028.
4. Crowe, K., McKinnon, D. H., McLeod, S., & Ching, T. Y. C. (2013). Multilingual children with hearing loss: Factors contributing to language use at home and in early education. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 29(1), 103-121. doi 10.1177/0265659012467640
5. Crowe, K., McLeod, S., McKinnon, D. H., & Ching, T. Y. C. (2012). Speech or sign: Factors influencing caregiver choice for children with hearing loss. Manuscript in submission.
6. Crowe, K., Fordham, L. A., McLeod, S., & Ching, T. Y. C. (in press). “Part of our world”: Influences on caregiver decisions about communication choices for children with hearing loss. Deafness and Education International.
7. Crowe, K. (2012). Translation to practice: Transcription of the speech and sign of bimodal children with hearing loss. In S. McLeod & B. A. Goldstein (Eds.), Multilingual aspects of speech sound disorders in children (pp. 191-195). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

   

   Kate with her proud CSU supervisors: David McKinnon, Sharynne McLeod, Loraine Fordham