{"title":"Translation, adaptation, and validation of the Arabic version of the meaningful auditory integration scale.","authors":"Soha N Garadat, Nihad A Almasri","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2141417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2141417","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The main objectives of this study were to translate and adapt the infant-toddler meaningful integration scale (IT-MAIS) into Arabic and to establish the psychometric properties of the translated scale in children with a cochlear implant.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The translation and cross-cultural adaptation of this questionnaire were completed in multiple steps and following standard translation protocols. In total, twenty-eight parents of young cochlear implant recipients completed IT-MAIS. Data were collected postoperatively and at 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-month post-device activation. Data were examined for the validity and reliability of the scale. The internal consistency and reliability of the scale were analyzed using Cronbach <i>α</i>, split-half reliability, and the corrected item-total correlation coefficients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings demonstrated that the scale exhibited good face and content validity, suggesting that the scale is a one-dimensional measure. Additionally, the reliability analysis for the scale indicated high reliability and correlation among test items. IT-MAIS scores consistently improved over time for all participants and this improvement. correlated negatively with the duration of deafness.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Current findings indicated that the translated Arabic version of the IT-MAIS scale could serve as a valid instrument for assessing the development of auditory skills in Arabic-speaking children with cochlear implants.</p>","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"24 1","pages":"35-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10351651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficacy of auditory verbal therapy in children with cochlear implantation based on auditory performance - A systematic review.","authors":"Augustina Noel, Manju Manikandan, Prawin Kumar","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2141418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2141418","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This systematic review focuses on the efficacy of auditory verbal therapy (AVT) in children with cochlear implants based on their auditory performance. The results presented are based on research findings from 2010 to 2021. The systematic review was designed based on the Popular Reporting Systems for the Systematic Review and Analysis of Meta-Analysts (PRISMA), the 2020 revised version, and the Critical Evidence for Clinical Evidence (CATE) checklist. Specific keywords were chosen based on the formulated research question and searched on the following search engines: Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, Cochrane, Science Direct, and BASE. All the searched articles were analysed based on specific exclusion criteria. The results revealed an important progression based on the auditory performance among children with cochlear implantation who received habilitation. The studies highlight that younger the age at implantation better the auditory performance and this may be necessary to allow at least relatively normal organization of auditory pathways in pre-lingual children with hearing impairment. Therefore, regular revitalization of aural-verbal rehabilitation and speech and language therapy is essential for younger children with hearing impairment to achieve the highest level of hearing function. This systematic review highlights importance of assessment of the auditory performance to be considered in the test battery while evaluating children with CI before and after habilitation along with AVT.</p>","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"24 1","pages":"43-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10352198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H E Cullington, D Jiang, S J Broomfield, M Chung, L C Craddock, S Driver, D Edwards, J M Gallacher, L Ll Jones, T Koleva, J Martin, H Meakin, R Nash, C Rocca, D R Schramm, N S Willmott, Z H Vanat
{"title":"Cochlear implant services for children, young people and adults. Quality standard.","authors":"H E Cullington, D Jiang, S J Broomfield, M Chung, L C Craddock, S Driver, D Edwards, J M Gallacher, L Ll Jones, T Koleva, J Martin, H Meakin, R Nash, C Rocca, D R Schramm, N S Willmott, Z H Vanat","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2023.2197344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2023.2197344","url":null,"abstract":"University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service, SO17 1BJ, UK, Hearing Implant Centre, Guy’s and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, King’s College London, London, UK, West of England Hearing Implant Programme, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Auditory Implant Department, Royal National ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Emmeline Centre for Hearing Implants, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, Midlands Hearing Implant Programme (Adult service), University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Scottish Cochlear Implant Program, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, UK, North Wales Auditory Implant Service, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Bodelwyddan, UK, Cochlear Implant Programme, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, University of Ottawa Auditory Implant Centre, Ottawa, Canada, Auditory Implant Centre, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, UK","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"24 sup1","pages":"S1-S13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10225920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hala Kanona, Cillian Forde, Anne M Van Rooyen, Peter Keating, Jane Bradley, Alfonso Luca Pendolino, Nishchay Mehta, Joseph G Manjaly, Sherif Khalil, Jeremy Lavy, Shakeel R Saeed, Azhar Shaida
{"title":"Cochlear implant outcomes in patients with Meniere's disease: a large case series.","authors":"Hala Kanona, Cillian Forde, Anne M Van Rooyen, Peter Keating, Jane Bradley, Alfonso Luca Pendolino, Nishchay Mehta, Joseph G Manjaly, Sherif Khalil, Jeremy Lavy, Shakeel R Saeed, Azhar Shaida","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2112998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2112998","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To perform a matched cohort study to assess whether patients with Meniere's Disease (MD) require more intensive auditory rehabilitation following cochlear implantation (CI) and identify factors that may affect outcomes in patients with MD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective case review was performed. MD and control patients were matched for age, biological sex, implant manufacturer and electrode design. Outcomes measured were speech scores, number of visits to audiology department following switch-on, and post-operative active MD.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty consecutive implanted MD patients were identified between May 1993 and May 2019. Patients with active MD following CI required significantly more visits to the audiology department compared to controls (P < 0.01) and patients who had inactive MD post-operatively (P < 0.01). However, in MD patients, active MD was less likely following CI (P = 0.03). In patients who continued to experience active MD post-operatively, further medical and surgical ablative intervention was required to control ongoing Meniere's attacks.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We present the largest case series of performance outcomes in CI patients with MD. Although speech outcomes in MD patients are comparable to controls, patients with active MD pre-operatively are more likely to experience variation in CI performance requiring a prolonged period of auditory rehabilitation compared to inactive preoperative MD.</p>","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"23 6","pages":"339-346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9504665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lidea K Shahidi, Leslie M Collins, Boyla O Mainsah
{"title":"Parameter tuning of time-frequency masking algorithms for reverberant artifact removal within the cochlear implant stimulus.","authors":"Lidea K Shahidi, Leslie M Collins, Boyla O Mainsah","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2096182","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2096182","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cochlear implant recipients struggle to understand speech in reverberant environments. To restore speech perception, artifacts due to reverberant reflections can be removed from the cochlear implant stimulus by applying a matrix of gain values, a technique referred to as <i>time-frequency masking</i>. In this study, two common time-frequency masking strategies are implemented within cochlear implant processing, either introducing complete retention or deletion of stimulus components using a binary mask or continuous attenuation of stimulus components using a ratio mask. Parameters of each masking strategy control the level of attenuation imposed by the gain values. In this study, we perceptually tune the parameters of the masking strategy to determine a balance between speech retention and artifact removal. We measure the intelligibility of reverberant signals mitigated by each strategy with speech recognition testing in normal-hearing listeners using vocoding as a simulation of cochlear implant perception. For both masking strategies, we find parameterizations that maximize the intelligibility of the mitigated signals. At the best-performing parameterizations, binary-masked reverberant signals yield larger intelligibility improvements than ratio-masked signals. The results provide a perceptually optimized objective for the removal of reverberant artifacts from cochlear implant stimuli, facilitating improved speech recognition performance for cochlear implant recipients in reverberant environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"23 6","pages":"309-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9611765/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10409818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley Baguant, Anthony Cole, Antoine Vilotitch, Raphaele Quatre, Sebastien Schmerber
{"title":"Difference in cochlear length between male and female patients.","authors":"Ashley Baguant, Anthony Cole, Antoine Vilotitch, Raphaele Quatre, Sebastien Schmerber","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2101534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2101534","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objective:</b> To compare cochlear duct length (CDL) between male and female patients by evaluating the diameter of the basal turn (distance A) on CT scans.<b>Method:</b> All temporal bone CT scans performed between 2014 and 2020 were reviewed in our medical center. Using multiplanar reconstructions, the length A, which is the greatest distance of the basal turn was measured on both sides. We performed an analysis of variance considering two factors: sex and side. Two different physicians carried out the measurements, an otolaryngologist and a neuroradiologist. The patients who had several CT scans allowed us to evaluate the reliability of our procedure.<b>Results:</b> Among the 888 CT scans reviewed, 8 were excluded because of cochlear malformations. The inter-sex difference of length A was found to be 0.29 millimeters(mm) 95% IC [0.26-0.34] and was longer in the male group (<i>p</i> < 0.0001). Using Alexiades' equation, we found that CDL was 34.5mm [34.37-34.61] in the male group and 33.3mm [33.13-33.38] in the female group. When one side was compared to the other, there was no significant difference (<i>p</i> = 0.226). An intra-class correlation found a good absolute agreement between the two screeners of 0.79.<b>Conclusion:</b> Males have a statistically significant longer CDL than females.</p>","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"23 6","pages":"326-331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10414179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farheen Naz Anis, Cila Umat, Kartini Ahmad, Badrulzaman Abdul Hamid
{"title":"Arabic phoneme-grapheme correspondence by non-native, deaf children with cochlear implants and normal hearing children.","authors":"Farheen Naz Anis, Cila Umat, Kartini Ahmad, Badrulzaman Abdul Hamid","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2114583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2114583","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to compare the error patterns of Arabic phoneme-grapheme correspondence by a group of Malay children with cochlear implants (CIs) and normal hearing (NH) and the effects of the visual graphical features of Arabic graphemes (no-dot, single-dot, and multiple-dots) on the phoneme-grapheme correspondence.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were matched for hearing age (Mean, M = 7 ± 1.03 years) and duration of exposure to Arabic sounds (M = 2.7 ± 1.2 years). All 28 Arabic phonemes were presented through a loudspeaker and participants pointed to the graphemes associated with the presented phonemes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 336 and 616 tokens were collected for six children with CI and 11 NH children for each task, i.e., phonemes repetition and phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Both groups found it easier to repeat phonemes than the phoneme-grapheme correspondence. The children with CIs showed more confusion ([ظ, ز, ذ, ض, خ, ب, ه, س, ع, & ث] >10% correct scores) in phoneme-grapheme correspondence than the NH children ([ظ:14%] and [ث: 27%]). There was a significant interaction (<i>p</i> = 0.001) among the three visual graphical features and hearing status (CI and NH).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results infer that non-native Malay children with CIs and NH use different strategies to process the Arabic graphemes' visual features for phoneme-grapheme correspondence.</p>","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"23 6","pages":"347-357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10402094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalie A Hayes, Lisa S Davidson, Rosalie M Uchanski
{"title":"Considerations in pediatric device candidacy: An emphasis on spoken language.","authors":"Natalie A Hayes, Lisa S Davidson, Rosalie M Uchanski","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2079189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2079189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As cochlear implant (CI) candidacy expands to consider children with more residual hearing, the use of a CI and a hearing aid (HA) at the non-implanted ear (bimodal devices) is increasing. This case study examines the contributions of acoustic and electric input to speech perception performance for a pediatric bimodal device user (S1) who is a borderline bilateral cochlear implant candidate. S1 completed a battery of perceptual tests in CI-only, HA-only and bimodal conditions. Since CIs and HAs differ in their ability to transmit cues related to segmental and suprasegmental perception, both types of perception were tested. Performance in all three device conditions were generally similar across tests, showing no clear device-condition benefit. Further, S1's spoken language performance was compared to those of a large group of children with prelingual severe-profound hearing loss who used two devices from a young age, at least one of which was a CI. S1's speech perception and language scores were average or above-average compared to these other pediatric CI recipients. Both segmental and suprasegmental speech perception, and spoken language skills should be examined to determine the broad-scale performance level of bimodal recipients, especially when deciding whether to move from bimodal devices to bilateral CIs.</p>","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"23 5","pages":"300-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9339525/pdf/nihms-1811446.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10129776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Riki Taitelbaum-Swead, Tzofit Dahan, Udi Katzenel, M. Dorman, L. Litvak, L. Fostick
{"title":"AzBio Sentence test in Hebrew (HeBio): development, preliminary validation, and the effect of noise","authors":"Riki Taitelbaum-Swead, Tzofit Dahan, Udi Katzenel, M. Dorman, L. Litvak, L. Fostick","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2083285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2083285","url":null,"abstract":"Objective\u0000 The AzBio sentence test is widely used to assess speech perception pre- and post-cochlear implantation. This study created and validated a Hebrew version of AzBio (HeBio) and tested its intelligibility amidst background noise. \u0000 Methods\u0000 In Experiment 1, 1,000 recorded Hebrew sentences were presented via five-channel vocoder to 10 normal hearing (NH) listeners for intelligibility testing. In Experiment 2, HeBio lists were presented to 25 post-lingual cochlear implant (CI) users amidst four-talker babble noise (4TBN) or in quiet, along with one-syllable word test. In Experiment 3, 20 NH listeners were presented with eight HeBio lists in two noise conditions [4TBN, speech shaped noise (SSN)] and four SNRs (+3, 0 dB, −3 dB, −6 dB). \u0000 Results\u0000 HeBio lists (33) produced 82% average understanding, no inter-list intelligibility differences among NH, and equal intelligibility for CI users. One-syllable words predicted 67% of the variance in HeBio among CI users. Higher intelligibility was found for SSN than for 4TBN, and the mean speech receptive threshold (SRT) was more negative for SSN than for 4TBN. \u0000 Conclusions\u0000 HeBio results were similar to AzBio. Results obtained with two noise types were as expected. HeBio is recommended for evaluation of different populations in quiet and noise.","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"23 1","pages":"270 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45996634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren H. Siegel, R. Araslanova, C. Stepniak, K. Zimmerman, S. Agrawal
{"title":"Achondroplasia and severe sensorineural hearing loss: The role of active bone conduction implants","authors":"Lauren H. Siegel, R. Araslanova, C. Stepniak, K. Zimmerman, S. Agrawal","doi":"10.1080/14670100.2022.2045073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14670100.2022.2045073","url":null,"abstract":"The BONEBRIDGE is a partially implantable, transcutaneous bone conduction device that can be used to treat conductive or mixed mild-to-moderate hearing loss in patients who do not attain sufficient improvement from conventional hearing aids. The following case report describes sequential bilateral BONEBRIDGE implantation in a 25-year-old patient with achondroplasia and bilateral mixed-hearing loss with a significant sensorineural component in the setting of chronic suppurative otitis media. Although the patient did not meet the approved BONEBRIDGE criteria, implantation was successful with improvements in audiological outcomes and self-reported quality of life. There were no reported complications at 5-years post-implantation.","PeriodicalId":53553,"journal":{"name":"COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL","volume":"23 1","pages":"291 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47036572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}