Parents’ Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH) scale in the Malay language: Data for normal-hearing children

Abstract

The adapted version can be used to evaluate amplification for children in the Malay speaking environment. The normative curve relating age to scores for the Malay PEACH can be used as a reference against which functional aural/oral performance of hearing-impaired Malaysian children can be evaluated.

Performance of Indian Children with Cochlear Implant on PEACH Scale

“…The performance was assessed using adapted PEACH (Tamil). Tamil PEACH was administered to parents of Tamil children and follows the same procedure as used by Quar et al [34]. Test-retest reliability was obtained from six participants when the adapted scale was administered twice.…”

“…They found that African-American children obtained lower scores for receptive and expressive language when compared with European-American children. Thus parenting style (maternal sensitivity and negative intrusive maternal behavior), maternal education level, family stress, race, parent-child interaction, and cultural difference can affect language development of children [34]. Previous studies reported that Chinese parents, when compared to American and Canadian parents, are more restrictive, controlling, or authoritarian and less affectionate [49–51].…”

“…The commonly administered parental report scales are Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (MAIS [31]), Infant Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (IT-MAIS [32]), LittlEARS Auditory Questionnaire (LEAQ [33]), and The Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH) scale [16]. Amongst these, PEACH scale is commonly used with children from any age group and with hearing loss ranging from a mild to a profound degree [34]. The scale needs to rate the presence and absence of listening skills as well as to write down examples of the auditory behavior of their children in day-to-day life in response to each of the items.…”

Auditory Behavior in Everyday Life (ABEL) questionnaire in Hebrew and in Arabic and its association with clinical tests in cochlear-implanted children

“…Therefore, parental questionnaires were developed and are very useful tools for clinicians to obtain meaningful information regarding children's auditory performance in real life [4,7]. The ABEL questionnaire is a reliable subjective measure that may be suitable for this age group to express parents' perception of their child's everyday auditory abilities [9].…”

“…Furthermore, use of parental questionnaires is less timeconsuming for the clinician. Despite the known disadvantage of using a questionnaire, which is subjective, parental questionnaires are a well-established technique that was found to be suitable for monitoring progress [3,4].…”