Rehabilitation impact on the articulation of children with a cochlear implant

Opis

Background: Improving the articulation of children with permanent or profound hearing loss does not come with cochlear implantation alone. Coherent, careful, and comprehensive rehabilitation is required to achieve complete success. Objective: This study aims to show that rehabilitation is important for improving the articulation of children with a cochlear implant. Material and methods: This study is a prospective and interventional clinical study involving 12 children with a cochlear implants from different socio-economic families. Results: In first-born pediatric patients with CI after rehabilitation, less voice disorders and less voice deviations were detected compared to second-borns. All the second-born children were found to have very poor language production, language comprehension, and vocabulary significantly below their age and poor articulation, that is severe voice disorder. The degree of a voice disorder is lower in children who went to rehabilitation for a longer period. Apart from weekly rehabilitation treatment frequencies, no other characteristics of the pediatric CI patients included in the study showed significance for predicting rehabilitation impact on articulation. Conclusion: The results do not confirm a significant rehabilitation impact on the articulation of pediatric patients with CI. Key words: children, patients, cochlear implant, rehabilitation, articulation