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Objective To revise the standards of the Language Function Evaluation for Hearing-impaired Children and to study the characteristics of language functions in hearing-impaired children.Methods A total of 741 normal hearing children at the age of 3~7 year old from 15 provinces in China were assessed using the Language Function Evaluation for Hearing-impaired Children.A total of 90 hearing-impaired children also completed the e-valuation.The scores of Representation Function,Tool Function,Coordination Function,Expression Function, Entertainment Function and Comprehensive Function of all the children were collected.ResuIts The regression e-quations of the language function were established:Representation Function score=3.34 +0.81 ×children's age, Tool Function score =6.00+0.51×children's age,Coordination Function score =5.72 +0.52 ×children's age,Ex-pression Function score =4.44+0.67×children's age,Entertainment Function score =6.34+0.47×children's age, Comprehensive Function score =4.96+0.62×children's age;Through the regression analysis,the reference stand-ards of the tool for children at the age of 3~6 year old were set down.Five-year-old hearing-impaired children's Tool Function and Expression Function were better than those of three or four-year-old ones(P<0.05).Five-year-old hearing-impaired children's Comprehensive Function were better than those of three-year-old ones(P<0.05).The language function scores had a big gap between the hearing-impaired children and the hearing-nor-mal children at the same ages.ConcIusion The new reference standards of the Language Function Evaluation for Hearing-impaired Children provides the Expectation values and Minimum values of language function from children at the age of 3 -6.They are rehabilitation criterions for hearing-impaired children.The older the hearing-im-paired children are,the higher their scores of language function evaluation.But their scores are much lower than those of the normal hearing children at the same age.
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@#Objective To study the characteristics of language function development and establish the reference standards in children of4~6 years old. Methods 616 hearing normal children at the age of 3~7 from 13 provinces in China were assessed with Language FunctionEvaluation for Hearing-impaired Children. 583 usable data were analyzed via SPSS 17.0. Results The older the children were, the highertheir scores of language function evaluation were (P<0.001). The differences between boys and girls on coordination function and relaxationfunction were significant (P<0.01). The girls were better than the boys. The reference standards of children of 4~6 years old were set downbased on the regression analysis. Conclusion There are some laws on children's language function development. The reference standards ofchildren by 4~6 years old has been developed.