Longitudinal improvements in communication and socialization of deaf children with cochlear implants and hearing aids: evidence from parental reports

Abstract

The pattern of results suggests that cochlear implants may be effective in improving deaf children's communication and social skills.

Everyday problems and stress faced by parents of children with cochlear implants.

“…At the same time, it should be emphasized that after CI children may continue to demonstrate communication difficulties and variability in their development of spoken language (Purdy et al, 1995;Sach & Whynes, 2005;Spencer, 2004;Spencer & Marschak, 2003;Svirsky et al, 2000). Bat-Chava et al (2005) suggested that this variability might be evident in two situations: first, in the poor acoustics of listening conditions in which children find themselves (e.g., with background noise), and second, in differences in individual functioning among implanted children. In addition, children's progress is a long-term process; for example, speech intelligibility continues to significantly improve over an extended period (Chin, Tsai, & Gao, 2003;Tobey, Geers, Brenner, Altuna, & Gabbert, 2003;Peng, Spencer, & Tomblin, 2004).…”

“…Moreover, great variability is often reported in children's outcomes following CI (Bat-Chava et al, 2005;Purdy, Chard, Moran, & Hodgson, 1995;Sach & Whynes, 2005;Spencer, 2004;Spencer & Marschak, 2003;Svirsky et al, 2000). This variability indicates that children may continue to demonstrate hearing and communication difficulties after CI.…”

“…According to data from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Food and Drug Administration, 100,000 adults and children around the world were using implants in 2005 (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 2006). Growing numbers of studies have demonstrated the positive benefits of CI for children's speech perception, speech production, language, and communication (Bat-Chava, Martin, & Kosciw, 2005;Connor, Hieber, Arts, & Zwolen, 2000;Geers, Nicholas, & Sedey, 2003;Kluwin & Stewart, 2000;Svirsky, Robbins, Kirk, Pisoni, & Miyamoto, 2000), for children's social competence (Bat-Chava & Deignan, 2001;Bat-Chava & Martin, 2002;Bat-Chava et al, 2005;Christiansen & Leigh, 2002), and for children's reading ability (Tomblin, Spencer, & Gantz, 2000).…”

Brief Assessment of Parental Perception (BAPP): Development and validation of a new measure for assessing paediatric outcomes after bilateral cochlear implantation

“…These items were selected as they reflected areas reported by parents and children, clinically and in research studies, as being important in deaf children and/or improving after cochlear implantation (e.g. Edwards, Khan, Broxholme and Langdon, 2006;Huttunen & Välimaa, 2010;Anmyr, Larsson, Olsson and Freijd, 2012;Van-Gent, Goedhart & Treffers, 2012;Shin, Kim, Kim et al, 2007;Bat-Chava, Martin & Kosciw, 2005). Each of these factors was presented within a table and respondents were asked to tick the box to show how things have changed, indicating degree of change using the following scale: much worse; slightly worse; no change; slightly better; much better.…”

Promovendo a interação mãe-criança com implante coclear: um estudo de caso

“…(1997), as relações nterpessoa s que a cr ança estabelece é que serv rão de contexto para sua soc al zação, para a emergênc a de competênc as bás cas e para a aqu s ção de hab l dades de comun cação. Pesqu sadores têm ressaltado que é a mot vação para comun car-se verbalmente que apo a o desenvolv mento da l nguagem que, como as hab l dades comun cat vas, está fortemente relac onada às exper ênc as soc a s da cr ança (Ol ve ra, 2002;Bat-Chava, Mart n & Kosc w, 2005).…”