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Comparative Study
. 2019 Sep-Oct;40(5):724-728.
doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2019.06.011. Epub 2019 Jun 28.

The effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation program on auditory perception and verbal intelligibility of deaf children

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Comparative Study

The effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation program on auditory perception and verbal intelligibility of deaf children

Mohammad Ashori et al. Am J Otolaryngol. 2019 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Linguistic information and cognitive rehabilitation has more related with auditory perception and verbal intelligibility. The aim of the present study was to assessment of the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation program on the auditory perception and verbal intelligibility of deaf children. This study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and control group design. Participants were 24 deaf children from Ava rehabilitation center of mother child in Isfahan city, Iran. Participants were selected by convenient sampling method. They were randomly divided into experimental and control groups, each group consisted of 12 children. The experimental group participated in the cognitive rehabilitation training program in 10 sessions for 45 min, while control group did not participate this program. The instruments of present research were Categories of Auditory Performance (CAP) and Speech Intelligibility Rating (SIR). The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) in 24th version of SPSS. The results of MANCOVA showed that cognitive rehabilitation program had significant effect on the auditory perception and verbal intelligibility in the experimental group at post intervention stage (P < 0/0001). There was a positive and significant increase in auditory perception and verbal intelligibility of experimental group. Our findings showed that Cognitive rehabilitation program training led to promote of auditory perception and verbal intelligibility of deaf children.

Keywords: Auditory perception; Cognitive rehabilitation; Deaf children; Verbal intelligibility.

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