Vowel Production in Persian Deaf Children with Cochlear Implant: is the Age of Implantation an Important Factor?

Proper production of vowels has great significance in speech intelligibility. Evidence shows that cochlear implantation has a significant impact on language and reading abilities in some children immediately after the surgery. The aim of the present study is comparing the quality of 6 simple Persian...

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Published in:Indian journal of otolaryngology, and head, and neck surgery and head, and neck surgery, 2014-12, Vol.66 (4), p.407-413
Main Authors: Zamani, Peyman, Rahmanirasa, Amir, Weisi, Farzad, Valadbeigi, Ayub, Farahani, Farhad, Rezaei, Mohammad
Format: Article
Language:English
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Head and Neck Surgery
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
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Otorhinolaryngology
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Summary:Proper production of vowels has great significance in speech intelligibility. Evidence shows that cochlear implantation has a significant impact on language and reading abilities in some children immediately after the surgery. The aim of the present study is comparing the quality of 6 simple Persian vowels between two groups of cochlear-implanted children under and over 2 years old. This was a cross-sectional analytic study conducted on 70 children who were implanted under the age of 2, 70 children who were implanted over the age of 2 and 238 normal children as control group. For data analysis, the SFS win acoustic analysis was used. Result of this study showed that F2/i/, f1/e/, f2/e/, f2/∞/, f1/a/, F2/a/, f1/o/, F2/o/and F2/u/means had significant difference between three groups ( P  
ISSN:2231-3796
0973-7707
DOI:10.1007/s12070-014-0727-1