scholarly journals Positive effects of hearing and speech rehabilitation on lexical fund quality in hearing impaired children

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 576-581
Author(s):  
Ivana Maletic-Sekulic ◽  
Ivana Veselinovic ◽  
Ljiljana Jelicic ◽  
Mirjana Sijan-Gobeljic ◽  
Ninoslava Dragutinovic
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Hearing Threshold ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Speech Rehabilitation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Background/Aim. Initial experiences in rehabilitation of children with cochlear implants and frequent debates regarding the effects of their application have imposed the necessity to compare the effects of speech rehabilitation in children with hearing aids with those having cochlear implants. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the level of lexical development in hearing impaired children who are involved in the process of hearing and speech-language rehabilitation and who were amplified by hearing aids or cochlear implants. Methods. The sample consisted of 55 children aged 3?6 years, diagnosed with prelingual bilateral hearing impairment with a hearing threshold above 90 dB. All examined children had average intellectual abilities and no additonal impairments. The sample was divided into 2 groups: E1 group consisted of 30 children with cochlear implants and E2 group consisted of 25 children who were amplified by individual hearing aids. Research methodology included a Test of Vocabulary. The testing was performed individually. A year after the testing, a retest was done. Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS v. 17 for Windows. Results. The largest number of children had average achievements on a Test of Vocabulary during initial testing. After a year (retest) significant improvements were noticed. A large number of children had above average achievements (46.7% in the E1 and 36% in the E2 group) while the number of children with below average achievements was significantly reduced (3.3% in the E1 and 8% in the E2). A comparative analysis of the test and those with gearing aids achievements showed that there was no statistically significant difference between children with cochlear implants and retest. Conclusion. Significant improvement of the achievements on retest in both groups can be explained by positive effects of systematic, planned, intensive and continuous rehabilitation of hearing impaired children, and not by application of certain type of hearing amplification.

scholarly journals Hearing-impaired Children and Adults in Need of Cochlear Implant- A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malik MD Islahuddin ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Nishad ◽  
Mangal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Cochlear Implantation ◽  
Hearing Threshold ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Introduction: Hearing is essential to learn language and speech and to develop cognitive skills. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), world-wide approximately 350 million people have hearing disorder. The performance of some moderately severe hearing-impaired adults and children using hearing aids is poorer than that of even profoundly hearing-impaired individuals using cochlear implants with advanced speech processing strategies. Aim: To find out the appropriate candidates in need of cochlear implantation in Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on hearing impaired patients attending Ear Nose Throat (ENT) Out Patient Department (OPD) of tertiary health care center in Prayagraj Uttar Pradesh from August 2011 to July 2012. The study population consisted of 95 patients categorised into four groups (pre-lingual children and adults, post-lingual children and adults) who presented with the chief complaints of impaired hearing and delayed speech. A detailed history, clinical and other relevant systemic examination and investigations were done. Patients were subjected to free field audiometry, pure tone audiometry and Brainstem-Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA) for assessment of hearing threshold level. Patients used hearing aid for six months and after hearing aid use, their hearing threshold and speech discrimination scores were estimated. Patients, whose aided score on open-set sentence test was less than 50%, were selected as candidate for cochlear implants, as they were not significantly benefited by hearing aids. Results: Out of the 95 cases, 48 were found to be suitable for cochlear implantation, which formed 50.5% of the study group. Pre-lingual hearing impaired adults had the highest percentage i.e., 86.7%, fulfilling the criteria for cochlear implantation followed by pre-lingual children, in whom 46.7% fell in this category. A 26.7% of postlingual children and 20% of postlingual adults were found suitable for cochlear implantation. Conclusion: The pre-lingual hearing impaired children and adults are more in need for cochlear implantation than the postlingual hearing-impaired children and adults. Approximately, 134,501 cases were estimated to be, in need of cochlear implantation in Prayagraj district based on the census estimate of 2011.

scholarly journals Production of Greek vowels by hearing-impaired children

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Nirgianaki ◽  
Maria Bitzanaki
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
High Dimension ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Acoustic Characteristics ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Impaired Group ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

The present study investigates the acoustic characteristics of Greek vowels produced by hearing-impaired children with profound prelingual hearing loss and cochlear implants. The results revealed a significant difference between vowels produced by hearingimpaired children and those produced by normal-hearing ones in terms of duration. Stressed vowels were significantly longer than non-stressed for both groups, while F0, F1 and F2 did not differ significantly between the two groups for any vowel, with the exception of /a/, which had significantly higher F1 when produced by hearingimpaired children. Acoustic vowel spaces were similar for the two groups but shifted towards higher frequencies in the low-high dimension and somehow reduced in the front-back dimension for the hearing-impaired group.

scholarly journals Cochlear implant: Speech and language development in deaf and hard of hearing children following implantation

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Ostojic ◽  
Sanja Djokovic ◽  
Nadezda Dimic ◽  
Branka Mikic
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Abstract Words ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Bacground/Aim. Almost 200 cochlear implantations were done in the four centers (two in Belgrade, per one in Novi Sad and Nis) in Serbia from 2002 to 2009. Less than 10% of implantees were postlingually deaf adults. The vast majority, i.e. 90% were pre- and perilingually profoundly deaf children. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of improved auditory perception due to cochlear implantation on comprehension of abstract words in children as compared with hearing impaired children with conventional hearing aids and normal hearing children. Methods. Thirty children were enrolled in this study: 20 hearing impaired and 10 normal hearing. The vocabulary test was used. Results. The overall results for the whole test (100 words) showed a significant difference in favor of the normal hearing as compared with hearing impaired children. The normal hearing children successfully described or defined 77.93% of a total of 100 words. Success rate for the cochlear implanted children was 26.87% and for the hearing impaired children with conventional hearing aids 20.32%. Conclusion. Testing for abstract words showed a statistically significant difference between the cochlear implanted and the hearing impaired children with hearing aids (Mann- Whitney U-test, p = 0.019) implying considerable advantage of cochlear implants over hearing aids regarding successful speech development in prelingually deaf children.

scholarly journals THE EARLY INTERVENTION TENDENCY OF CHINESE CHILDREN WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Jiaojiao Wu ◽  
Yuhan Xie
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Cochlear Implantation ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Regular School ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

From the change of adult unilateral cochlear implantation into young children even under the age of six implant cochlear, sequential bilateral cochlear implantation, which benefit by early hearing screening and technological development of cochlear implants. It is a worldwide trend that simultaneous bilateral cochlear implantation for hearing impaired children under the age of three. Cochlear implants bring changes of education opportunities and choices for children with hearing impairment. Family-centered postoperative early intervention is important, at the same time, hearing impaired children group characteristics tend to be diversified. A growing number of children with cochlear implants study in regular school, consequently, the number of deaf student is decreasing in deaf school. Regular school faces the challenge of lacking of professional teaching staff. 

scholarly journals Speech Intelligibility in Persian Hearing Impaired Children with Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rezaei ◽  
Maryam Emadi ◽  
Peyman Zamani ◽  
Farhad Farahani ◽  
Gohar Lotfi
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

scholarly journals COMPARISION OF ARTICULATION AMONG CHILDREN USING DIGITAL AND NON DIGITAL HEARING AIDS

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaista Majid
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Binaural Hearing ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Internal Variables ◽  
Digital Hearing Aids ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children

Hearing aids have been used successfully and efficiently for many decades for rehabilitation of hearing impaired children. In present era, advancement in technologies has brought varieties hearing aids that enable hearing impaired children to utilize their residual hearing efficiently for speech and language learning. Recently two types of hearing aids are available according to amplification circuitry, i.e. analog and digital. The present study was aimed at comparing articulation of children using digital hearing aids (DHA) with analog, the non-digital hearing aids (AHA) users. A sample of thirty Children with Hearing Impairment, fifteen DHA users and fifteen AHA users, with age range from 8 to 13 years was selected by purposive sampling technique to participate in the study. Picture Articulation Test with the subjective assessment technique was used to assess the articulation of children from speech sample taken in response to picture stimuli. The results showed that both groups of children with DHA and AHA demonstrated the presence of articulation errors. In children using DHA the intelligibility was significantly better than that of AHA users. Significantly children using AHA presented phonetic and phonological errors, but no significant difference found in articulation among male and female children, children with mono aural and binaural hearing aid fittings, and children with different amplification periods. A detailed analysis of articulation with a larger sample of children using both types of hearing aids with more considerations of external and internal variables is recommended in future to further clarify the issue

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