EDITOR'S NOTE. This review article was recruited for Pediatrics in Review. It proved longer
than anticipated and too long for Pediatrics in Review, but all who reviewed it agreed that it …

Objective. As part of a long-term study of possible effects of early-life otitis media on speech,
language, cognitive, and psychosocial development, we set out to delineate the occurrence …

We studied the efficacy of tonsillectomy, or tonsillectomy with adenoidectomy, in 187
children severely affected with recurrent throat infection. Ninety-one of the children were …

The present study was designed to determine whether 4 measures of children's
spontaneous speech and language differed according to the educational level of the …

One hundred 3‐year‐olds with speech delay of unknown origin and 539 same‐age peers
were compared with respect to 6 variables linked to speech disorders: male sex, family …

Background Recommendations vary regarding immediate antimicrobial treatment versus
watchful waiting for children younger than 2 years of age with acute otitis media. Methods …

In a prospective study of child development in relation to early‐life otitis media, we
administered the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) to a large (N …

Tympanometry, a test of middle ear status new to clinical pediatrics, was carried out on 280
subjects, 10 days through 5 years of age. The tympanograms obtained were compared with …

The MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI; Dale, 1996; Fenson et
al., 1994), parent reports about language skills, are being used increasingly in studies of …

Objective. In previous clinical trials involving children severely affected with recurrent throat
infection (7 or more well-documented, clinically important, adequately treated episodes of …