Auditory performance of preschool children with hearing aids or cochlear implant in Kelantan
In recent years, there is no study that has been carried out to measure the effectiveness of HA or CI fitting i.e.the parents report on their child speech and language behavioural and its relation with factors that may affect the auditory performance among pre-schoolers in Malaysia specifically i...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/61336/1/NURUL%20AISYAH%20BINTI%20MARZUKI%20-%20e.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/61336/ |
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| Summary: | In recent years, there is no study that has been carried out to measure the
effectiveness of HA or CI fitting i.e.the parents report on their child speech and language
behavioural and its relation with factors that may affect the auditory performance among
pre-schoolers in Malaysia specifically in Kelantan. Therefore, this study aims to
determine the auditory performance of pre-school children with HAs or CI in Kelantan.
Subjects were recruited from Hospital USM patient’s record and total of 11 children
participated in this study. Six of them were HAs’ user while five of them where CI users. Based on the aided performance, the children were divided into three groups which consists of good average aided response (20-40 dBHL), moderate average aided response
(41-60 dBHL), and poor average aided response (61-80 dBHL). Each of them was being
tested using aided test, 6 Ling’s sound test and MAIS and MUSS questionnaire for the
parents to score their children auditory skills and use of meaningful speech. Based on the
results, there is no correlation between average aided performances and hearing age with
MAIS and MUSS scores (p > 0.05). However for the correlation between Six Ling’s
sound test, there was significant, moderately strong, positive correlation (Spearman’s r=
0.772) with the MAIS scores only (p < 0.05). These three groups of aided performances
also shows no significant differences with MAIS and MUSS scores (p > 0.05) however
for moderate average aided performance (41 -60 dBHL) shows highest median and IQR
score for MAIS and MUSS, MAIS (median, 21 and IQR, 18) whereas for MUSS,
(median is 22.5 and IQR 16). In conclusion, there is not much different in terms of
auditory performance for children with HA’s or CL MAIS and MUSS scores on its own
may not be a good predictor of child’s auditory performance as only MAIS and 6 Ling’s
sound did correlate well. |
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