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Research project

A systematic review of early interventions for parents of deaf babies

  • Start date: 1 April 2019
  • End date: 30 September 2020
  • Funder: National Institute for Health Research: Research for Patient Benefit
  • Value: £142,783.00
  • Co-investigators: Professor Ruth Swanwick
  • External co-investigators: Professor Barry Wright (University of York and Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) (PI), Dr Victoria Allgar (University of York), Helen Phillips (Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust)

A systematic review of existing literature covering early interventions for parents of newly diagnosed deaf babies.

The most appropriate early intervention will be trialed in a larger scaled research study to test its effectiveness with parents who attended the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) across the UK.