PMID- 36029613
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220913
LR  - 20231020
IS  - 1873-7994 (Electronic)
IS  - 0021-9924 (Linking)
VI  - 99
DP  - 2022 Sep-Oct
TI  - Communication abilities in children with hearing loss - views of parents and 
      daycare professionals.
PG  - 106256
LID - S0021-9924(22)00075-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106256 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Today, children with hearing loss (HL) are diagnosed and fitted 
      with hearing devices at an early age. However, HL may still influence their 
      communicative development. Thus, we need up-to-date research on how children 
      perform in their everyday environments, such as at home or daycare. This study 
      provides an overview of the communication abilities of early-diagnosed children 
      with HL reported by parents and daycare professionals. The first aim of the study 
      is to compare the results of children with bilateral hearing aids (BiHAs) or 
      bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) with those of children with normal hearing 
      (NH) and with each other. The second aim of the study is to compare the views of 
      the two respondents, parents and the daycare professionals. In addition, the 
      effects of gender and nonverbal intelligence quotient (IQ) on the responses are 
      explored. METHODS: The participants, aged 4;0-6;9, were 25 children with BiHAs, 
      29 children with BiCIs, and 64 children with NH. The Finnish version of the 
      Children's Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-2) was used to assess the communication 
      skills of the participants. RESULTS: Group and nonverbal IQ had a significant 
      effect on the General Communication Composite (GCC) score. Both groups of 
      children with HL had poorer GCC scores than the children with NH, apart from the 
      respondent. The BiHA-group had significantly lower scores than the NH-group on 
      Speech, Syntax, Semantics, and Coherence subscales. The BiCI-group had 
      significantly lower scores than the NH-group across all subscales of the CCC-2. 
      The parents rated the participants significantly higher than the daycare 
      professionals in Speech and Social Relations. In contrast, the daycare 
      professionals rated the participants higher than the parents in Coherence, 
      Inappropriate Initiation, Stereotyped Language, and Use of Context. Furthermore, 
      gender influenced Coherence, Nonverbal Communication, Social Relations, and 
      Interests, for which the girls performed better than the boys. The nonverbal IQ 
      had an effect on Syntax, Semantics, and Use of Context, for which higher 
      nonverbal IQ was associated with better performance. CONCLUSIONS: On average the 
      children with HL had poorer communication skills than the children with NH. 
      Pragmatic difficulties were more common in the BiCI-group than in the BiHA-group. 
      The respondents were not completely unanimous, which may be because of the 
      different demands of different environments.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022. Published by Elsevier Inc.
FAU - Tuohimaa, Krista
AU  - Tuohimaa K
AD  - Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, Finland; Child Language Research 
      Center, University of Oulu, Finland. Electronic address: krista.tuohimaa@oulu.fi.
FAU - Loukusa, Soile
AU  - Loukusa S
AD  - Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, Finland; Child Language Research 
      Center, University of Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Lopponen, Heikki
AU  - Lopponen H
AD  - Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of 
      Eastern Finland, Finland; Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck 
      Surgery, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland.
FAU - Valimaa, Taina
AU  - Valimaa T
AD  - Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, Finland; Child Language Research 
      Center, University of Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Kunnari, Sari
AU  - Kunnari S
AD  - Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, Finland; Child Language Research 
      Center, University of Oulu, Finland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20220820
PL  - United States
TA  - J Commun Disord
JT  - Journal of communication disorders
JID - 0260316
SB  - IM
EIN - J Commun Disord. 2023 Nov-Dec;106:106382. PMID: 37858484
MH  - Child
MH  - *Cochlear Implantation/methods
MH  - *Cochlear Implants
MH  - Communication
MH  - *Deafness
MH  - Female
MH  - *Hearing Aids
MH  - *Hearing Loss
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Parents
MH  - *Speech Perception
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Cochlear implant
OT  - Communication abilities
OT  - Daycare professionals
OT  - Hearing aid
OT  - Hearing loss
OT  - Parents
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no conflicts of interest to 
      declare.
EDAT- 2022/08/28 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/14 06:00
CRDT- 2022/08/27 18:19
PHST- 2021/10/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/08/12 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/08/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/08/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/14 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/08/27 18:19 [entrez]
AID - S0021-9924(22)00075-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106256 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Commun Disord. 2022 Sep-Oct;99:106256. doi: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106256. Epub 
      2022 Aug 20.