Effect of Early Intervention on Language Development in Hearing-Impaired Children

Document Type : Original

Authors

1 Department of Audiology, Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty, Iran University of Medicine Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

2 Department of Basic Sciences in Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

3 Clinical speech therapist, Social Welfare Organization, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction:
Hearing loss from birth up to the age of 3 years has a negative effect on speech/language development and results in sensory, cognitive, emotional, and academic defects in adulthood by causing delayed development of communicative-linguistic abilities. The present study was performed in order to assess the effect of early intervention on language development in Persian children aged 6-7 years with severe sensorineural hearing loss.
 
Materials and Methods:
Thirty boys and girls aged 6-7 years participated in this study, all of them had severe congenital sensorineural hearing loss in both ears. All children were using bilateral behind-the-ear hearing aid, and had similar economic/socio-cultural backgrounds. Subjects were categorized into two groups based on the age of identification/intervention of hearing loss (3-6 and 12-15 months of age). The Persian TOLD-P3 test was used to evaluate language development in all subjects. Data collection was accomplished by observation, completion of questionnaires, and speech recording.
 
Results:
There was a significant difference in language development in 11 sub-tests and five lingual gains on the Persian TOLD-P3 test between early (3-6 months of age) and late identified/intervened (12-15 months of age) hearing-impaired children (P<0.05). Early identified/intervened hearing-impaired children had a notable preference in all assessed sub-tests and lingual gains.
 
Conclusion: 
Early identification/intervention of hearing loss before the age of 6 months has a significant positive effect on a child’s language development in terms of picture/relational/oral vocabulary, grammatical comprehension, sentence combining, grammatical completion, phonologic analysis, word differentiation, word production, semantics, and syntax. Moreover, early identification/ intervention of hearing loss develops the hearing-impaired child’s lingual gains in visual vocabulary, grammatical completion, word differentiation, phonologic analysis, and word production.

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Iranian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Volume 28, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
January and February 2016
Pages 13-20

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