A call for linguistic and culturally congruent family-centred early hearing detection and intervention programmes in South Africa.
Ntsako P Maluleke
PMID 38572898WHAT IT FOUND
This commentary argues that early hearing detection programmes in South Africa must be linguistically and culturally congruent and family-centred to improve access.
It proposes a framework but reports no original data or outcomes.
What this paper is
This paper is a theoretical commentary advocating for linguistically and culturally congruent, family-centred early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programmes in South Africa. It reviews existing literature and proposes a framework based on four dimensions of healthcare access (availability, affordability, acceptability, accommodation), but it reports no original study, no participants, and no outcome data. There is no finding here to change clinical practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the proposed framework for family-centred, linguistically congruent EHDI programmes as evidence that such interventions have been tested or shown to improve outcomes in South Africa. The paper contains no original study data.