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Article

Parent Perspectives of Ear Health and the Relationship with Children’s Speech and Language in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children

by
Anita Morrow
1,
Neil Orr
1,
Kai Nash
1,
Harvey Coates
2,
Cara Cross
1,
John Robert Evans
3,
Hasantha Gunasekera
4,
Samantha Harkus
5,
Linda Harrison
6,
Sharynne McLeod
7,
Catherine McMahon
1,
Katie Neal
1,8,
Andrea Salins
1 and
Rona Macniven
1,9,*
1
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University Hearing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
2
School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
3
Moondani Toombadool Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
4
Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
5
National Acoustic Laboratories, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
6
Macquarie School of Education, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
7
Charles Sturt University, Panorama Ave, Bathurst, NSW 2795, Australia
8
The Shepherd Centre, Newtown, NSW 2042, Australia
9
School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Children 2023, 10(1), 165; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010165
Submission received: 15 October 2022 / Revised: 14 December 2022 / Accepted: 12 January 2023 / Published: 14 January 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive and Linguistic Development in Children and Adolescents)
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Abstract

Health and well-being are holistic concepts that are perceived to be inseparable for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We examined relationships between parent-reported ear symptoms for 787 Indigenous children at two time points (age 2–3 years, age 4–5 years) and two parent-reported speech and language outcomes one year later (age 5–6 years). Most parents (80.2%) reported no concern about their child’s expressive language and (93.8%) receptive language. Binary logistic regression models examined ear health as a predictor of children’s expressive and receptive speech and language adjusting for sociodemographic and health covariates. For children without parent-reported ear symptoms, there were lower odds of parental concern about expressive speech and language (aOR = 0.45; 95% CI 0.21–0.99) and receptive language (aOR = 0.24; 95% CI 0.09–0.62). Parents were less likely to have concerns about the child’s expressive speech and language if their child was female, lived in urban or regional areas, had excellent or very good global health, or had no disability when aged 2–5 years. Since parent-reported ear health and speech and language concerns were related, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children could benefit from culturally safe, strength-based, and family-centered integrated speech, language, and ear health services.
Keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; indigenous; parents; speech; language; communication; hearing; child; preschool; cohort studies Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; indigenous; parents; speech; language; communication; hearing; child; preschool; cohort studies

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Morrow, A.; Orr, N.; Nash, K.; Coates, H.; Cross, C.; Evans, J.R.; Gunasekera, H.; Harkus, S.; Harrison, L.; McLeod, S.; et al. Parent Perspectives of Ear Health and the Relationship with Children’s Speech and Language in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. Children 2023, 10, 165. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010165

AMA Style

Morrow A, Orr N, Nash K, Coates H, Cross C, Evans JR, Gunasekera H, Harkus S, Harrison L, McLeod S, et al. Parent Perspectives of Ear Health and the Relationship with Children’s Speech and Language in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. Children. 2023; 10(1):165. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010165

Chicago/Turabian Style

Morrow, Anita, Neil Orr, Kai Nash, Harvey Coates, Cara Cross, John Robert Evans, Hasantha Gunasekera, Samantha Harkus, Linda Harrison, Sharynne McLeod, and et al. 2023. "Parent Perspectives of Ear Health and the Relationship with Children’s Speech and Language in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children" Children 10, no. 1: 165. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010165

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Morrow, A., Orr, N., Nash, K., Coates, H., Cross, C., Evans, J. R., Gunasekera, H., Harkus, S., Harrison, L., McLeod, S., McMahon, C., Neal, K., Salins, A., & Macniven, R. (2023). Parent Perspectives of Ear Health and the Relationship with Children’s Speech and Language in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. Children, 10(1), 165. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010165

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