Comparison of Parental Expectations Regarding Effectiveness of Speech Therapy Among Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Users
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Keywords
Hearing, Hearing Impairment, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Abstract
Parental expectations are the desires for their children's socialization, academic performance, and professional ambitions which are based on effective communication.
Objective: This study compared parental expectations regarding the effectiveness of speech therapy among children with Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid.
Method: The study design was a comparative Cross-Sectional Study. The sample size consisted of parents of 100 hearing-impaired children. It was divided into two groups i.e., 50 parents of cochlear implant children and 50 hearing aid users’ parents. The purposive Sampling Technique was used to conduct this study. The study was conducted at Mind Care Rehabilitation, Bol Rehabilitation Centre, and Rahman Rehabilitation Clinic. In this study, the parents of the children receiving speech therapy after amplification were included. The parents of the children with other challenge disorders i.e., neurological disorders, organic disorders, syndromes, or learning disabilities were excluded from this study. (Questionnaire) The expectation of improvement in communication abilities was used to conduct this study. Demographics were explained using frequencies. Cross tabs were used to display the results
Results: This current study showed that in “child will be able to easily detect very quiet sound’’ domain cochlear Implant 24% and hearing Aid 26% expectations. And in the other result is” Child usually treated like a hearing child by family and friends” with cochlear Implants at 27% and hearing aids at 27% expectations.
Conclusion: It was concluded from this study that parents with children having cochlear implants have higher expectations than those of hearing aid users. It is implicated by the study that parents of such children should provide counselling sessions
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