- Title
- The Hearing and Talking Scale (HATS): Development and validation with young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in urban and remote settings in Australia
- Creator
- Ching, Teresa Y. C.; Saetre-Turner, Michelle; Harkus, Samantha; Martin, Louise; Ward, Meagan; Marnane, Vivienne; Jones, Caroline; Collyer, Eugenie; Khamchuang, Chantelle; Kong, Kelvin
- Relation
- ARC.CE140100041 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE140100041
- Relation
- Deafness & Education International Vol. 22, Issue 4, p. 305-324
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14643154.2020.1830241
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are affected by chronic middle ear infection or otitis media from infancy that has a negative impact on development of listening and communication skills. Deficits in these skills are often not detected until school-age when the opportunity for early intervention is lost. Primary health and early childhood workers need screening tools to assist them with detecting the problem early, but there is a scarcity of tools. This study reports the development and validation of a screening tool for detecting communication problems in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The tool, called the Hearing and Talking Scale (HATS), relies on a systematic use of parent observations of communication behaviours of their children in everyday situations. Developed by using a co-design approach, the HATS is culturally and linguistically appropriate for use with parents/carers of young children by front-line workers not trained in speech-language pathology. We validated the HATS by comparing the HATS score of 68 children (46 Indigenous and 22 non-Indigenous children) with their performance in standardised assessments. The accuracy of the HATS was 80% and 81% when compared to the ASQ-TRAK and the Expressive Vocabulary Test respectively. The HATS takes 5 minutes to administer, and is easy to score and interpret. It can be used as part of a standard ear and hearing health check for young children to support early detection so that those with problems can be referred for specialist diagnosis and treatment at a young age.
- Subject
- parent report; hearing and talking scale; talking; communication; children; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1434940
- Identifier
- uon:39556
- Identifier
- ISSN:1464-3154
- Language
- eng
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