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J Hodgson

Publications and source records attributed to J Hodgson.

At least 145 records · Page 8Linked to original sources
PubMed1993

Children who are seen but not referred: hearing assessment after bacterial meningitis.

Bacterial meningitis is an important cause of hearing loss in children. Previous studies have shown that a proportion of survivors of childhood bacterial meningitis do not have a formal hearing assessment. To confirm this finding amongst children treated for bacterial meningitis in our hospital, a retrospective audit was performed. The hospital case notes and community audiological records were examined to see how many children were referred for hearing assessment after their illness, and how many actually attended. Between 1984 and 1991, 194 children were directly admitted to our hospital with bacterial meningitis. Thirteen children died, and hearing assessment was carried out on 135 of the 181 survivors (75%), 15 of whom had evidence of sensorineural hearing loss. The major reason for hearing not being assessed was non-referral (31 out of 46 cases), 12 children did not attend for assessment despite referral, and three moved shortly after discharge. Thirty of the children remaining in the area who had no assessment (69.7%) were however seen in hospital out-patients. Routine referral for hearing testing at discharge, with re-referral at out-patient attendance, could help increase the number of children assessed after bacterial meningitis.

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PubMed1992

The status of metalinguistic skills in reading development.

Diane Sawyer (this issue) presents an account of reading development and its disabilities that stresses the contribution of a hierarchy of metalinguistic skills in the segmentation and manipulation of speech. Two of her central claims are discussed: (1) Failure to master the productive relationship between spelling and sound may often originate in difficulty in the prerequisite ability to carry out phonemic segmentation; the population so affected may include both "true" and "apparent" types of dyslexia, with rather different prognoses; and (2) a range of hierarchically and temporally organized sublexical metalinguistic speech skills govern the timecourse of reading development. Evidence from cognitive neuropsychological case reports is reviewed for its bearing on these claims and for its implications for the strong metalinguistic hypothesis, which contends that explicit, conscious mastery of the relationship between phonology and orthography is a necessary (and perhaps sufficient) precondition for the development of fluent reading.

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