Language development in two school-aged congenitally profoundly-hearing-impaired children who received hearing aids, and speech and language training

Background: Hearing impairment is a factor that directly compromises the individual’s language which can affect emotional and academic defects by delayed development of communicative ability. This can vary according to the type and degree of hearing loss. Speech therapy intervention is important, along with the use of sound amplification devices, so that the child may have a chance to develop speech, consequently learning and re-habilitation to the society. Aims of the present study was performed to assess the effectiveness of early intervention of speech and language therapy after use of hearing aids to hearing impaired children on their syntactic and lexical development.Methods: This quasi-experimental study conducted on 100 children having different degree of hearing loss at department of Neurology and department of ENT, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. After collecting socio-demographic data of subjects by observation, completion of questionnaires, and speech recording by audiologist; Speech and language therapy provide by audiologist for six month after providing hearing aids and improvement in their syntactic and lexical development recorded.Results: There is significant improvement in verbal response from 14% before therapy to 81% after therapy and non-verbal response before therapy was 86% and after therapy was 19%. Before giving speech and language therapy to subjects pointing score was 24%, sign language was 10% and words response was 0% which increases after therapy were 1%, 2% and 39% respectively. Early identified/intervened hearing-impaired children had a notable positive difference in all assessed lingual gains.Conclusions: This is study results definitely point to positive effects of intensive and continuous application of speech and language therapy to syntactic and lexical development of hearing impaired children.

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Speech and language development in normally hearing and hearing-impaired children

A Textbook of Audiological Medicine ◽

10.1201/b14730-22 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 323-336

Author(s):

Emily Tobey ◽

Beth Douek

Keyword(s):

Language Development ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Speech And Language Development ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Hearing Impaired Children

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Equivalent Noise Dose Obtained Through Hearing Aids in the Classrooms of Hearing-Impaired Children

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.2103.147 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 147-150

Author(s):

Ronald A. Wilde

Keyword(s):

Hearing Aids ◽

High Gain ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Deaf Children ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Very High ◽

Hearing Impaired Children

A commercial noise dose meter was used to estimate the equivalent noise dose received through high-gain hearing aids worn in a school for deaf children. There were no significant differences among nominal SSPL settings and all SSPL settings produced very high equivalent noise doses, although these are within the parameters of previous projections.

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Underlying Structure of Auditory-Visual Consonant Perception by Hearing-Impaired Children and the Influences of Syllabic Compression

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.3102.156 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 156-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

P. A. Busby ◽

Y. C. Tong ◽

G. M. Clark

Keyword(s):

Hearing Aids ◽

Free Field ◽

Acoustic Parameter ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Visual Signal ◽

Underlying Structure ◽

Choice Procedure ◽

Release Times ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Hearing Impaired Children

The identification of consonants in a/-C-/a/nonsense syllables, using a fourteen-alternative forced-choice procedure, was examined in 4 profoundly hearing-impaired children under five conditions: audition alone using hearing aids in free-field (A),vision alone (V), auditory-visual using hearing aids in free-field (AV1), auditory-visual with linear amplification (AV2), and auditory-visual with syllabic compression (AV3). In the AV2 and AV3 conditions, acoustic signals were binaurally presented by magnetic or acoustic coupling to the subjects' hearing aids. The syllabic compressor had a compression ratio of 10:1, and attack and release times were 1.2 ms and 60 ms. The confusion matrices were subjected to two analysis methods: hierarchical clustering and information transmission analysis using articulatory features. The same general conclusions were drawn on the basis of results obtained from either analysis method. The results indicated better performance in the V condition than in the A condition. In the three AV conditions, the subjects predominately combined the acoustic parameter of voicing with the visual signal. No consistent differences were recorded across the three AV conditions. Syllabic compression did not, therefore, appear to have a significant influence on AV perception for these children. A high degree of subject variability was recorded for the A and three AV conditions, but not for the V condition.

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Listening Levels Through Hearing Aids: A Difference of Opinion Comments on: Powel, C. A. & Tucker, I. G. "A Method of Predicting the Optimum Listening Levels of Hearing Impaired Children" (Scand Audiol 5, 167, 1976)

International Journal of Audiology ◽

10.3109/14992027709043109 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 107-113

Author(s):

M. C. Martin ◽

D. Brooks ◽

T. Morris

Keyword(s):

Hearing Aids ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Difference Of Opinion ◽

Listening Levels ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Hearing Impaired Children

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The effect of age at time of cochlear implantation on the pragmatic development of the prelingual hearing impaired children

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology ◽

10.1186/s43163-021-00092-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mona Sameeh Khodeir ◽

Dina Fouad El Sayed Moussa ◽

Rasha Mohammed Shoeib

Keyword(s):

Language Development ◽

Cochlear Implantation ◽

Study Groups ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Language Delay ◽

Pragmatic Language ◽

Language Abilities ◽

Pragmatic Development ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract Background Pragmatics is the social use of language that draws on understanding human interactions in specific contexts and requires engagement with a communicative partner or partners. The hearing-impaired children are known to have a pragmatic language delay as hearing impairment deprived of exposure to natural communication interactions, in addition to the language delay they have. Since the age of implantation has emerged as an important predictor of language, hearing, and speech in children who use cochlear implants (CI), question aroused about the benefits of early cochlear implantation on pragmatic language development in those children. Thus, this study aims to compare the pragmatic language development of the prelingual hearing impaired children who cochlear implanted before the age of 3 years and those who cochlear implanted after the age of 3 years. Results The two study groups showed no significant differences regard their scores in the Egyptian Arabic Pragmatic Language Test (EAPLT). The two studied groups had pragmatic language scores below their 5th percentile. Among the studied groups, the scores of the EAPLT were positively correlated to the age of the children, the children’s language abilities, and the duration of the received language rehabilitation, with no significant correlation to the age of implantation. Conclusions The age of implantation has no impact on pragmatic language development in children with CI. The prelingual children with CI are susceptible to delays in the pragmatic language development that is primarily related to the age of those children and their language abilities, besides their experience in social interactions. These results should be considered in their rehabilitative plan and advocate the importance of early incorporation of pragmatic behaviors into their intervention programs.

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