Poursoroush Sara, Ghorbani Ali, Soleymani Zahra, Kamali Mohammd, Yousefi Negin, Poursoroush Zahra
Department of Speech Therapy , School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Otorhinolaryngol. 2015 Sep;27(82):361-7.
Speech intelligibility, the ability to be understood verbally by listeners, is the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of cochlear implantation. Thus, the goal of this study was to compare the speech intelligibility between normal-hearing and cochlear-implanted children using the Persian intelligibility test.
Twenty-six cochlear-implanted children aged 48-95 months, who had been exposed to 95-100 speech therapy sessions, were compared with 40 normal-hearing children aged 48-84 months. The average post-implanted time was 14.53 months. Speech intelligibility was assessed using the Persian sentence speech intelligibility test.
The mean score of the speech intelligibility test among cochlear-implanted children was 63.71% (standard deviation [SD], 1.06) compared with 100% intelligible among all normal-hearing children (P<0.000). No effects of age or gender on speech intelligibility were observed in these two groups at this range of ages (P>0.05).
Speech intelligibility in the Persian language was poorer in cochlear-implanted children in comparison with normal-hearing children. The differences in speech intelligibility between cochlear-implanted and normal-hearing children can be shown through the Persian sentence speech intelligibility test.
言语可懂度，即听众能够通过言语理解说话内容的能力，是评估人工耳蜗植入效果的金标准。因此，本研究的目的是使用波斯语可懂度测试比较正常听力儿童和人工耳蜗植入儿童的言语可懂度。
将26名年龄在48 - 95个月、接受过95 - 100次言语治疗的人工耳蜗植入儿童与40名年龄在48 - 84个月的正常听力儿童进行比较。植入后的平均时间为14.53个月。使用波斯语句子言语可懂度测试来评估言语可懂度。
人工耳蜗植入儿童的言语可懂度测试平均得分是63.71%（标准差[SD]，1.06），而所有正常听力儿童的可懂度为100%（P<0.000）。在这个年龄范围内，两组中未观察到年龄或性别对言语可懂度有影响（P>0.05）。
与正常听力儿童相比，人工耳蜗植入儿童的波斯语言语可懂度较差。人工耳蜗植入儿童和正常听力儿童在言语可懂度上的差异可以通过波斯语句子言语可懂度测试显示出来。
