Mode of Communication and Classroom Placement Impact on Speech Intelligibility

Tobey, Emily A.; Rekart, Deborah M.; Buckley, Kristi A.; Geers, Ann E.

doi:10.1001/archotol.130.5.639

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“…As could be expected, most of these children were also the poorer performers on the speech recognition tests [14] . These conclusions were also drawn by Tobey et al [7] , who stated that higher speech intelligibility scores were associated with educational settings that emphasize oral communication development and where the CI children are in contact with their normal-hearing peers.…”

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“…This implies that research should not be restricted to measuring 'objective' benefits, but also evaluate the subjective advantages. Several studies have focused on subjective benefits such as educational achievements and changes in quality of life (QoL) by the use of open-ended and closed-set questionnaires and (semi-)structured interviews [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] .…”

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confidence: 99%

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Subjective Benefits of Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Young Children after 18 Months of Implant Use

Scherf

Deun²,

Wieringen³

et al. 2009

ORL

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Objective: To investigate the subjective benefits of bilateral cochlear implantation in 33 young children after 18 months of second implant use. Method: The Würzburg questionnaire inquiring into a range of hearing functions was filled out by the parents. Additional data concerning the daily life and well-being of the children were gathered with an open-ended questionnaire and the Categories of Auditory Performance. Results were analyzed separately for children younger and older than 6 years at the time of the second implantation. Results: After 18 months of bilateral implant use 30% of the younger and 6% of the older children made the transition to an auditory-oral communication. In this period, 15% of all children switched to mainstream schools. The parents reported an evolution of their children’s auditory abilities, which included a better sound and speech perception. Multiregression analysis revealed that early hearing aid fitting and the age at the second cochlear implantation significantly contributed to the variance of the Würzburg results. Conclusions: The results indicate a wide range of positive subjective changes associated with bilateral cochlear implantation, even in older children. This progress led to a better and easier communication and a better integration in the normal-hearing world.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subjective Benefits of Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Young Children after 18 Months of Implant Use

Scherf

Deun²,

Wieringen³

et al. 2009

ORL

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“…Our SIR results, i.e., outcomes for productive abilities, were in accordance with the results several researchers. 17 These studies confirmed that mean speech intelligibility score was higher for children who were enrolled in an oral program than for those who were enrolled in a total communication program.…”

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Impact of newborn hearing screening

Philips

Corthals

Raeve³

et al. 2009

The Laryngoscope

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“…A statistically significant variation was found when comparing aided air conduction thresholds and postoperative receptive language age between subjects who attended speech rehabilitation regularly and those who did not (p=0.013 and p=0.029, respectively). A study by Tobey et al [14] stated that speech rehabilitation services had a positive impact on speech perception, intelligibility, and language age and suggested that this is due to early emphasis on speech and auditory skill development, which may have a later impact on the child's ability to make use of the auditory information provided by the cochlear implant to produce intelligible speech [14] . This lack of attendance to speech rehabilitation may be attributed to the fact that most participants of cochlear implantation live in far destinations and can not comply with regular attendance for speech rehabilitation, which may require up to 2 visits a week.…”

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Statistical Analysis of Various Factors Affecting the Results of Cochlear Implantation

Zohdi¹,

AbdelMessih²,

Maged³

et al. 2014

Int Adv Otol

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OBJECTIVE:Evaluation of several factors that affected the outcome in patients who underwent cochlear implant surgery. MATERIALS and METHODS:Retrospective study on 8 postlingual adults and 52 prelingual children with severe to profound hearing loss who underwent cochlear implantation at the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery department, Kasr-Al Aini Hospital, Cairo University. A statistical analysis of several factors was performed to reveal any significant effect of the outcome of the procedure. RESULTS:The duration of deafness in adults showed a significant linear yet non-monotonic correlation with the postoperative average auditory thresholds as revealed by Pearson's correlation coefficient (r=0.839, p=0.009) and a linear regression model (f=14.211, p=0.009), which showed that the increase in the duration of deafness led to an increase in hearing thresholds and accounted for 70.3% of the variance in the outcome (β=0.839, t=3.770, and p=0.009). Age at implantation in children showed a positive linear, monotonic relation with the postoperative receptive (r=0.725, p<0.001, r S =0.354, p=0.010) and was a significant predictor of outcome (β=0.440, t=2.961; p=0.005) according to multiple linear regression. Mann-Whitney U-test was performed to evaluate the difference in medians of outcomes in relation to the regularity of attendance to speech rehabilitation. We found a significant effect over the auditory hearing thresholds (the mean ranks of regulars and irregulars were 21. 48 and 31.92, respectively; u=202.00, z=2.48, p<0.05) CONCLUSION: An increase in the duration of deafness leads to less favorable results of postoperative auditory thresholds in postlingual adults. Additionally, an increase in age at implantation may be associated with increased expressive language age in the first year postimplantation, and regular attendance to a speech rehabilitation program is associated with better postoperative auditory thresholds and a higher receptive language age.

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Mode of Communication and Classroom Placement Impact on Speech Intelligibility

Cited by 43 publications

References 7 publications

Subjective Benefits of Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Young Children after 18 Months of Implant Use

Subjective Benefits of Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Young Children after 18 Months of Implant Use

Impact of newborn hearing screening

Statistical Analysis of Various Factors Affecting the Results of Cochlear Implantation

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