Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

Story Retelling Skills of 6-7 Years Old Persian speaking Children with Cochlear Implant ‎

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
S Safaeyan 1
T Maleki Shahmahmood 1
L Ezazi 1
F Aghaei 2
Sh Rahmani 1
R Sabermoghadam 1
1 Department of Speech Therapy, School of Paramedical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
2 Department of Speech Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
10.22038/jpsr.2021.47886.2105
Abstract
Purpose:
Narrative analysis is a practical tool for comprehensive assessment of language, especially in preschoolers. The main aim of the current study was to analysis narratives of preschool children with cochlear implant (CI) and comparing it with typically developing (TD) children.   
Methods:
In this cross-sectional study, the language performances of eighteen 6-7 years old children with CI and 18 TD children were compared by application of a standardized story retelling test. Inclusion criteria for participants with CI were: being monolingual speaker of Persian; having congenital and non-progressive hearing loss; experiencing the surgery of cochlear implantation before the age 4 and a having history of auditory-verbal therapy. Each of the participants of control group were matched with one participant in CI group in terms of age, gender and socioeconomic status. The mean and standard deviation of the scores of the variables were calculated. The mean and standard deviation of the macro-structure and micro-structure variables were calculated in all participants. Independent t-test non-parametric test of Mann-Whitney, was used to compare the results.
Results:
The mean scores of CI group in both macro and micro structures of language were significantly lower than the TD group (p<0.05).
Conclusion:
The significant weaknesses of children with cochlear implant at both macrostructure and microstructure aspects of language, alongsid the importance of narrative skills as the predictor of academic performnces, indicates the need to pay more attention to narrative based therapy in the training programs of these children, especially before entering the school.
Keywords
Hearing loss
Cochlear implants
Narrative analysis
Macro-structure
Micro-structure
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Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation
Volume 10, Issue 2
Summer 2021
Pages 29-38