The effect of duration of using cochlear implant and hearing aid on the speech intelligibility of children with hearing loss

Massoume  Hosseini; Nader  Saki; Negin  Moradi; Majid  Soltani; Mahmood  Latifi; Soheila  Nikakhlagh

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The effect of duration of using cochlear implant and hearing aid on the speech intelligibility of children with hearing loss

Author(s):

Massoume Hosseini¹,

Nader Saki¹,

Negin Moradi^2,*,

Majid Soltani ²,

Mahmood Latifi³,

Soheila Nikakhlagh¹

1Hearing and Speech Research Center , Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Science,Ahvaz, Iran

2Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Research Center , Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Science,Ahvaz, Iran

3Diabete Research Center,Health Reserch Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Science,Ahvaz, Iran

Journal of Clinical Research in Paramedical Sciences:Vol. 6, issue 2; e81277

Published online:May 24, 2017

Article type:Research Article

Received:Oct 03, 2016

Accepted:Mar 20, 2017

How to Cite:Massoume HosseiniNader SakiNegin MoradiMajid Soltani Mahmood LatifiSoheila Nikakhlaghet al.The effect of duration of using cochlear implant and hearing aid on the speech intelligibility of children with hearing loss.J Clin Res Paramed Sci.6(2):e81277.

Abstract

Introduction: Because people with hearing loss have no feedback mechanism to monitor and adjust their speech٫so their speech production are often unclear and affected. Today, by advances in audio enhancement systems and biotechnologies of implantation٫ the greater efficiency of rehabilitation interventions, was provided to children with hearing impairment. In this study we aimed to investigate the relation of the use of hearing aids and cochlear implant to speech intelligibility of children with hearing impairment.

Methods: This study is carried out on 30 children 3 to 10 years old with hearing impairment. Speech sample of children is collected in 2 level of word and sentence. The relationship between speech intelligibility scores and duration of use of hearing aids and cochlear implant was evaluated by using of Statistical analysis.

Results: The study indicated that there is more correlation between increasing the duration of implant usage, and increasing speech intelligibility in comparison with increasing duration of hearing aids usage, and increasing speech intelligibility.

Conclusion: Having noticed that, the severe to profound hearing impaired children with cochlear implant in comparison with the most advanced hearing aids available, usually get sounds in better quality and quantity. So it seems that compared with hearing aids, cochlear implant serves more capably at enhancing speech intelligibility of children with hearing impairment

Keywords

Hearing impairment

cochlear implant

hearing aid

speech intelligibility

hearing loss

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