To examine whether otitis media with effusion (OME) and associated hearing loss (HL) during the first 5 years of life were related to children's language skills during the preschool years and to school readiness skills at entry to kindergarten.
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, Department of Allied Health Sciences University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-8180, USA. joanneroberts@unc.edu
