Treatment efficiency in children with severe to profound hearing impairment: A comparative study of general language stimulation and developmental-descriptive approach based on morphological changes

authors:

avatar Masoomeh Salmani , * , avatar AliAgha Sadollahi , avatar Behrooz MahmodiBakhtiari , avatar Marziyeh Madah , avatar sepideh seyed , avatar Nafiseh Alboyeh , avatar Hajar Alizadeh , avatar Mahsa MokhtarZadeh , avatar Fatemeh Ziarati , avatar Raheb Ghorbani ORCID


how to cite: Salmani M, Sadollahi A, MahmodiBakhtiari B, Madah M, seyed S, et al. Treatment efficiency in children with severe to profound hearing impairment: A comparative study of general language stimulation and developmental-descriptive approach based on morphological changes. koomesh. 2012;13(4):e152535. 

Abstract

  Introduction: In speech therapy, treatment efficacy includes 3 specific fields as treatment effectiveness, efficiency and effects. Treatment efficiency compares two approaches or more with each other. The aim of this study was to compare of two approaches: general language stimulation and developmental-descriptive approach.   Materials and Methods: It has been done as an interventional-longitudinal study with14 participants (primary school students with hearing loss) for two educational years. All changes in different parts of language were assessed by decontextualized language test, storytelling, action verb and sentence writing in the end of each year.   Results: Total number of affixes in storytelling, derivational suffix in action verb test, expression of prepositions and adverb (location) as well as perception superlative adjective in decontextualized language test had statistically significant changes (P