Kumar Suman, Rout Nachiketa, Kumar Navnit, Chatterjee Indranil, Selvakumaran H
Department of Speech and Hearing, ERC, AYJNIHH, B.T. Road, Bon Hooghly, Kolkata 700090, India.
ISRN Otolaryngol. 2013 Mar 4;2013:565096. doi: 10.1155/2013/565096. Print 2013.
This study compares the functional language performance of Tamil-speaking children (n = 30) who received a cochlear implant (CI) before 2 years of age (earlier implanted group: EIG) and between 3 and 4 years of age (later implanted group: LIG). Everyday functional language of children was evaluated by interviewing parents using the adapted Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH) Questionnaire in Tamil language. On average, both groups of children had difficulties in everyday language functioning. However, functional results of EIG were better than those of LIG. In addition significant correlations were found between age at intervention and PEACH score. The evidence lends support to early intervention increasing the functional performance of the children fitted with CI. PEACH can be a clinically feasible evaluation tool to implement in practice for clinicians to obtain meaningful information regarding children's auditory performance in real life at childhood.
本研究比较了2岁之前接受人工耳蜗植入（CI）的讲泰米尔语儿童（n = 30）（早期植入组：EIG）和3至4岁接受人工耳蜗植入的儿童（晚期植入组：LIG）的功能性语言表现。通过使用泰米尔语改编的《儿童听觉/口语表现家长评估》（PEACH）问卷对家长进行访谈，评估儿童的日常功能性语言。平均而言，两组儿童在日常语言功能方面都存在困难。然而，早期植入组的功能结果优于晚期植入组。此外，还发现干预年龄与PEACH评分之间存在显著相关性。证据支持早期干预可提高接受人工耳蜗植入儿童的功能表现。PEACH可以成为临床医生在实践中实施的一种临床可行的评估工具，以便获得有关儿童在童年时期现实生活中听觉表现的有意义信息。
