Speechunderstanding in CI children within hearing impaired families

Introduction:

In Children with Cochleae Implant with profound hearing impaired parents we evaluated the development of oral speech.

Material and Method:

With an retrospective study we analysed children with CI and their profound hearing impaired adults. The quality of speech understanding was categorized with the help of Categories of Auditory Performance (CAP II) and Speech Intelligibility Rating (SIR) as well as for the CI children as for their parents.

Results:

36 children (19 girls) were identified within our collective. Most of them were treated also by an logopedic and was educated in a Kindergarten or school for special needs. 30 children are communicating within their families additional to oral speech signing. 29 children were implanted bilaterally. The mean experience of CI was 6,9 years (0 – 13). The CAP median of the CI Children was 7 (3 – 9), the SIR median was 4 (2 – 5). Experiences and CAP resp. SIR correlated positivly (r = 0,611 bzw. r = 0,884). CAP and SIR oft he children and their parents correlated sligthly positive (SIR mother: r = 0,310, n = 22, p = 0,161; SIR father: r = 0,421, n = 15, p = 0,118).

Conclusion:

All children within the study did have a positiv development of their speech undestanding.

The quality of speech understanding of their parents was explaining in about 24% the CAP-score.

Publication History

Publication Date:
23 April 2019 (online)