Speech intelligibility and auditory perception of pre-school children with Hearing Aid, cochlear implant and Typical Hearing.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There is a growing interest in speech intelligibility and auditory perception of deaf children. The aim of the present study was to compare speech intelligibility and auditory perception of pre-school children with Hearing Aid (HA), Cochlear Implant (CI), and Typical Hearing (TH).

Methods

The research design was descriptive-analytic and comparative. The participants comprised 75 male pre-school children aged 4-6 years in the 2017-2018 from Tehran, Iran. The participants were divided into three groups, and each group consisted of 25 children. The first and second groups were respectively selected from pre-school children with HA and CI using the convenience sampling method, while the third group was selected from pre-school children with TH by random sampling method.

SUBMITTER: Ashori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7231984 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature