Auditory Perception Outcomes in Children with Deafness and Additional Disabilities 12 Months After Cochlear Implant Activation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Study Design
2.2. Eligibility Criteria
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- A confirmed diagnosis of severe or profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
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- At least one additional disability affecting neurodevelopment and/or a syndromic diagnosis associated with HL.
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- Anatomically intact auditory nerves and a cochlea without malformations, confirmed via imaging.
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- Receipt of a unilateral cochlear implant through the public health system.
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- Completion of auditory speech perception assessments both pre-implantation and 12 months post-activation.
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- Consistent use of the cochlear implant sound processor.
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- No postsurgical complications requiring reimplantation.
2.3. Demographics
2.4. Speech Perception Testing Procedures
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
ASD | Autism spectrum disorder |
CAP | Category of Auditory Performance |
CI | Cochlear implant |
HL/D | Hearing loss or deafness |
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0 | No awareness of environmental sounds |
1 | Awareness of environmental sounds |
2 | Response to speech sounds |
3 | Identification of environmental sounds |
4 | Discrimination of some speech sounds without lip reading |
5 | Comprehension of common sentences without lip reading |
6 | Conversation comprehension without lip reading |
7 | Use of the telephone with a known speaker |
Additional Disabilities | Frequency | % of Total | % Accumulated |
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Global developmental delay | 2 | 11.1% | 11.1% |
Autism spectrum disorder, cleft of soft and hard palates | 1 | 5.6% | 16.7% |
Waardenburg syndrome | 1 | 5.6% | 22.2% |
Autism spectrum disorder | 1 | 5.6% | 27.8% |
Prematurity, microcephaly, hypothyroidism | 1 | 5.6% | 33.3% |
Cerebral palsy (spastic tetraparesis), prematurity, hydrocephalus, global developmental delay, epilepsy | 1 | 5.6% | 38.9% |
Waardenburg syndrome, mild intellectual disability | 1 | 5.6% | 44.4% |
Global developmental delay, hypotony, autism spectrum disorder | 1 | 5.6% | 50.0% |
Prematurity, cytomegalovirus, retinitis | 1 | 5.6% | 55.6% |
Prematurity, global developmental delay, learning disability | 1 | 5.6% | 61.1% |
Severe spinal cord aplasia, learning disability | 1 | 5.6% | 66.7% |
Global developmental delay, learning disability | 1 | 5.6% | 72.2% |
Extrapyramidal cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, microcephaly, prematurity | 1 | 5.6% | 77.8% |
Prematurity, mixed cerebral palsy | 1 | 5.6% | 83.3% |
Prematurity, global developmental delay, strabismus | 1 | 5.6% | 88.9% |
Prematurity, severe hemolytic disease due to Rh- mother, retinopathy | 1 | 5.6% | 94.4% |
Usher syndrome, corneal dystrophy | 1 | 5.6% | 100.0% |
A_DETEC | A_Act | CAP_Preimp | CAP_Post | Dif_Pre-Post | |
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N | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
Lost | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Average | 1.61 | 4.67 | 0.722 | 1.94 | 1.17 |
Median | 0.950 | 3.10 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 |
Standard Deviation | 1.53 | 3.83 | 1.07 | 1.06 | 0.707 |
Minimum | 0.110 | 2.00 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Maximum | 5.00 | 16.1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Shapiro–Wilk W | 0.782 | 0.721 | 0.706 | 0.796 | 0.807 |
Shapiro–Wilk p-value | 0.002 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
Statistic | p | Mean Difference | EE of the Difference | Effect Size | ||||
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CAP_Preimp | CAP_Post | W of Wilcoxon | 0.00 a | <0.001 | −1.50 | 0.152 | Biserial correlation of ranges | −1.00 |
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Martínez-Pantanalli, C.; Bravo-Torres, S. Auditory Perception Outcomes in Children with Deafness and Additional Disabilities 12 Months After Cochlear Implant Activation. Audiol. Res. 2025, 15, 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/audiolres15030047
Martínez-Pantanalli C, Bravo-Torres S. Auditory Perception Outcomes in Children with Deafness and Additional Disabilities 12 Months After Cochlear Implant Activation. Audiology Research. 2025; 15(3):47. https://doi.org/10.3390/audiolres15030047
Chicago/Turabian StyleMartínez-Pantanalli, Celia, and Sofía Bravo-Torres. 2025. "Auditory Perception Outcomes in Children with Deafness and Additional Disabilities 12 Months After Cochlear Implant Activation" Audiology Research 15, no. 3: 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/audiolres15030047
APA StyleMartínez-Pantanalli, C., & Bravo-Torres, S. (2025). Auditory Perception Outcomes in Children with Deafness and Additional Disabilities 12 Months After Cochlear Implant Activation. Audiology Research, 15(3), 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/audiolres15030047