Effect of wireless remote microphone application on speech discrimination in noise in children with cochlear implants

Mehrkian, Saeideh; Bayat, Zeinab; Javanbakht, Mohanna; Emamdjomeh, Hesamaldin; Bakhshi, Enayatollah

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2019.07.007

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“…The reason for this could be that because their cognitive effort was already being overused and overworked, their concentration span was compromised. Mehrkian et al (2019) stated that this causes attention and focus challenges. This affects learners with cochlear implants at school because they do not grasp information in class when they are not focused.…”

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The effects of cognitive effort on academic performance of learners with cochlear implants in a private mainstream school in Gauteng

Blumenthal

Sefotho²

2022

African Journal of Disability

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Background: This research investigated the phenomenon of learners with cochlear implants and their challenges with cognitive effort in private mainstream schools in Gauteng. Many learners with cochlear implants encounter academic and social challenges at school, despite the advanced technology.Objectives: This study aimed to explore how learners with cochlear implants experience cognitive effort and whether it impacts their academic potential.Methods: Research was conducted using a phenomenological design. Phenomenography was used as theoretical framework to perceive, interpret and understand experiences of the cochlear implant recipients. The six former learners who were recipients of cochlear implants were selected using purposive sampling. Semistructured interviews were utilised to gather information, which was analysed using thematic content analysis.Results: Five themes emerged from the analysis, namely auditory challenges, cognitive functioning, peer interactions, emotional health and concealed disability. This article only presents the first theme of cognitive functioning and highlights three subthemes related to cognitive effort. Findings show that many learners struggled with their concentration span and fatigue, as a result of their cognitive effort difficulties.Conclusion: This study demonstrated how learners with cochlear implants face challenges with cognitive effort at their mainstream schools. It indicates the need for awareness of and training on educating learners with cochlear implants to help them reach their academic potential.Contribution: This study contributes a unique focus on learners with cochlear implants in mainstream schools in South Africa. The study highlights that cognitive effort of learners with cochlear implants influenced their capabilities to multitask and retain information, despite the effort they have to put into listening. Further research should be conducted to develop interventions that could lesson cognitive effort while increasing learner productivity. The article responds to disability studies and inclusive education.

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The effects of cognitive effort on academic performance of learners with cochlear implants in a private mainstream school in Gauteng

Blumenthal

Sefotho²

2022

African Journal of Disability

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“…The use of hearing aids before cochlear implantation, individual differences, socio-economic factors, lack of other disabilities, recognition of disability, memory and attention are all factors affecting the development and development of speech and language in children with cochlear implantation ( 45 ). In the study of Mehrakian et al, voice recognition in children with cochlear implants who used the FM device was much better than those who did not use this technology ( 46 ); so, it seems that children with cochlear implants need to upgrade cochlear implants and benefit. Few studies in Iran have done on this field; so, it seems necessary that different engineering teams take new steps in this field.…”

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Rehabilitation of children with cochlear implant in Iran: A scoping review

Moradi

Fallahi-Khoshknab

Dalvandi

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“…Although, the ndings showed that the pediatric CIs recipients had poor performance on both speech perception in quiet [17][18][19] and SiN perception [10,15, 16,20,21] compared to their peers with NH, as Zaltz et al noted, a fewer studies have been administered to assess SiN perception in prelingually deafened CI users than postlingually ones [4]. Accordingly, merely three studies have been administered on SiN perception in Persian pediatric CIs users [22][23][24] that among them just one study was speci cally focused on Persian school-age CIs recipients [22]. Their ndings emphasized on the poor performance of children using CIs on speech perception in noise.Certainly, valid and robust assessment tools are needed to diagnose accurately any de ciencies in the processing of speech perception under spectrally degraded conditions in the pediatric users of CIs and/or hearing aids (HAs) [25].…”

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“…In their study, Oryadi-Zanjani and Vahab explained the PLNTs as a valid assessment toolkit to measure SiN perception in pediatric CIs recipients [22]. In addition, Mehrkian et al used the Persian version of the words-in-noise to show that using wireless remote microphones can improve the performance of pediatric CIs users on speech discrimination in noise [24]. Hence, to design and execute experimental studies in order to nd interventional e cient approach for improving the children's listening performance in background noise, it is needed to perform more speci c studies on the children's problems in listening under spectrally degraded conditions.…”

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Speech-in-noise perception in school-age cochlear implants users compared to their peers with normal hearing: evidence of a critical condition

Oryadi-Zanjani

2022

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Background: Although cochlear implants (CIs) is the state-of-the-art therapy for individuals with hearing impairment to process the acoustic-phonetic cues of speech during the sensitive period of spoken language development and to access optimal auditory performance, previous research findings demonstrated that the users have essential challenges with speech recognition in the presence of background noise. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine speech-in-noise (SiN) perception in Persian school-age CIs/hearing aids (HAs) users compared to their peers with normal hearing (NH). Methods: The research was administered as a cross-sectional study. Speech-in-noise performance in thirty-three school-age children with hearing loss (19 unilateral CIs users and 14 bilateral HAs users) was compared to twenty school-age children with normal hearing by using the Persian Lexical Neighborhood Tests (PLNTs) include: Persian Monosyllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test (PMLNT)-easy, PMLNT-hard, Persian Disyllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test (PDLNT)-easy, and PDLNT -hard. To make sure that floor or ceiling effects would not effect on the children’s performance, the PLNTs were performed by sound field at different levels of signal to noise ratio (SNR). Results: The SiN performance on all four the subscales of the PLNTs was significantly poorer in Persian school-age CIs/HAs users than their peers with NH for all stepwise increases in the SNR (P < 0.001).Conclusions: The Persian school-age CIs users experience a critical condition related to listening spectrally degraded speech in noisy environments such as home, school, and classroom due to SiN perception insufficiency. Accordingly, it can be concluded that they are potentially at-risk of literacy difficulties. Therefore, it is suggested that SiN perception in school-age CIs users be systematically assessed and monitored through valid tests in order to managing their listening problems in the situations with background noise.

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Effect of wireless remote microphone application on speech discrimination in noise in children with cochlear implants

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

The effects of cognitive effort on academic performance of learners with cochlear implants in a private mainstream school in Gauteng

The effects of cognitive effort on academic performance of learners with cochlear implants in a private mainstream school in Gauteng

Rehabilitation of children with cochlear implant in Iran: A scoping review

Speech-in-noise perception in school-age cochlear implants users compared to their peers with normal hearing: evidence of a critical condition

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