Audiologic Evaluation of Deaf Children

Abstract

This paper describes an audiologic test battery for hearing-impaired children which includes otoscopic examination, tympanometry, pure-tone audiometry, speech perception testing, and hearing aid evaluation. Several of the procedures and modifications to apparatus have been developed specifically for use with deaf children. Clinical data are presented from 160 hearing-impaired children (age range three-16 years). Eighteen percent of their ears were found to contain excessive cerumen and to require ear canal irrigation. The incidence of abnormal tympanograms was high for young children but decreased with increasing age. A simple auditory speech perception test designed for use with both severely and profoundly deaf children is described, which provides for evaluation of a child's ability to recognize words, categorize them into stress patterns, or both. The children's word recognition and word categorization scores were found to relate to their audiometric averages. The overall test battery is easy to administer and also is efficient, in that considerable audiologic information can be obtained quickly.

The Production of English Inflectional Morphology, Speech Production and Listening Performance in Children with Cochlear Implants

“…They scored below chance on the following tests: Monosyllable, Trochee, Spondee test (Erber & Alencewicz, 1972), the Four-Choice Spondee test from the Early Speech Perception test battery (Geers & Moog, 1990), the Vowel Perception Test (Tyler, Fryauf-Bertshcy, & Kelsay, 1991), and the Phonetically Balanced Kindergarten Word Lists, (Haskins, Reference Note 1)(See Fryauf-Bertschy et al, 1997). Participants HA1-HA4 subsequently received CIs.…”

16 Auditory Brainstem Implants

“…Of the remaining 26 patients, 1 was explanted, 2 were not activated, 13 did not respond to stimulation (nonresponders), and 10 did not have adequate follow-up. Figure 6 shows overall results for audiologic tests administered with sound alone, and Figure 7 shows results for tests administered with sound alone, vision alone, and 14 closed-set speech (MTS-stress, MTS-word, NU-CHIPS), 15,16 and open-set speech (CID-sentences). 17 Solid horizontal lines indicate chance response for closed-set tests.…”

Adaptação da Bateria de Testes EARS ao Português Europeu

“…Alves M, et al Adaptação da bateria de testes EARS ao português europeu, Acta Med Port 2014 Jan-Feb;27(1): [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] INTRODUÇÃO A utilização de instrumentos adequados de avaliação em saúde é fundamental para a gestão clínica e económi-ca da prestação de cuidados. Em Portugal, são escassos os instrumentos específicos de avaliação para a população pediátrica com défice auditivo.…”

“…Considerou-se adequado validar cultural-Alves M, et al Adaptação da bateria de testes EARS ao português europeu, Acta Med Port 2014 Jan-Feb;27(1): [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Tabela 1 -Principais instrumentos de avaliação utilizados internacionalmente com a população pediátrica que apresenta défice auditivo Teste de Illinois de aptidões psicolinguísticas Avaliação da compreensão auditivo-visual, associação auditivo-visual, expressão verbal-motora, integração gramático-visuo-auditiva, e memória sequencial auditiva e visuo-motora Gael-P Avaliação da linguagem a nível da compreensão e da expressão mente esta bateria em crianças normo-ouvintes com idade cronológica inferior às idades para as quais foi desenvolvida tendo em conta o conceito de idade auditiva. Em crianças com audição normal a idade auditiva equivale à idade cronológica, porém, em crianças com défice auditivo, ela corresponde ao período de tempo desde a primeira programação do processador de fala do implante coclear ou desde a primeira adaptação da prótese auditiva.…”