Development of Language and Social Skills in Hearing-impaired Children With and Without Rehabilitation
Publish place: Iranian Journal of Health Sciences، Vol: 12، Issue: 2
Publish Year: 1403
Type: Journal paper
Language: English
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Index date: 15 June 2024
Development of Language and Social Skills in Hearing-impaired Children With and Without Rehabilitation abstract
Background and Purpose: Language learning and socialization is a natural process unique to humans. Profound hearing loss has far-reaching consequences for speech and personal-social development. This study aimed to compare the language and social skills development of normal-hearing children with hearing-impaired ones and studied the effect of hearing rehabilitation on selected developmental aspects of hearing-impaired children.
Materials and Methods: Of 149 children between 6 and 18 months recruited for this study, 55 girls and 65 boys were classified as normal-hearing children (NHC), 11 girls and 13 boys as non-rehabilitated hearing-impaired children (NRHIC) group, and 3 girls and 2 boys as rehabilitated hearing-impaired children (RHIC) group. The Denver developmental screening test 2 (DDST-II) evaluated their language and personal-social development. The obtained data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests.
Results: The development of language between the NHC group and the RHIC (P=0.016) and NRHIC (P=0.001) groups was statistically significant (P≤0.05). The development of personal-social skills between the NHC group and RHIC (P=0.004) and NRHIC (P=0.001) groups were statistically significant. However, the difference in these two developmental aspects, language (P=0.770) and personal social (P=0.0421), between the two hearing-impaired groups was not significant.
Conclusion: Delays in language and social skills development are evident in hearing-impaired children at an early age, so the age of onset of rehabilitation should be reduced as early as possible. The Denver-II screening test is recommended to evaluate the language and skills development in the health centers and centers specialized for hearing-impaired children aged 6 to 18 months.
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Development of Language and Social Skills in Hearing-impaired Children With and Without Rehabilitation authors
Parvin Veiskarami
Department of Audiology, Shohadaye Ashayer Hospital, Lorestan University of Medical Science, Khormabad, Iran.
Mehdi Roozbahani
Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Humanites, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran.
Ideh Mortazavi
Osborne College of Audiology, Salus University, Pennsylvania, United States.
