[The LittlEARS® Auditory Questionnaire : An analysis of multicentre data of children after early bilateral cochlear implant placement].

Autor: Seebens Y; Cochlear Implant Center (CIC) Rhein-Main Friedberg der HSF gGmbH, Friedberg, Deutschland. yseebens@cic-rheinmain.de.; Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Deutschland. yseebens@cic-rheinmain.de., Metzeld D; Cochlear Implant Center (CIC) Rhein-Main Friedberg der HSF gGmbH, Friedberg, Deutschland., Streicher B; HNO-Klinik, Cochlear Implant Centrum (CIK), Universitätsklinik Köln, Köln, Deutschland., Glaubitz C; Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Klinik, Kopf- und Halschirurgie, CICERO Cochlear-Implant-Centrum, Uniklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Deutschland., Kronesser D; Sächsisches Cochlear Implant Centrum (SCIC), Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Deutschland., Kreibohm-Strauß K; Cochlear Implant Centrum Wilhelm Hirte, Hannover, Deutschland., Helbig S; Klinik für HNO-Heilkunde, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland., Schäfer K; Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Deutschland., Kröger S; Klinik und Poliklinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde, Sektion Implant Centrum Freiburg (ICF), Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland., Beck R; Klinik und Poliklinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde, Sektion Implant Centrum Freiburg (ICF), Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland., Aschendorff A; Klinik und Poliklinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde, Sektion Implant Centrum Freiburg (ICF), Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland.
Jazyk: němčina
Zdroj: HNO [HNO] 2024 Sep 05. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 05.
DOI: 10.1007/s00106-024-01509-9
Abstrakt: Background: In order to optimise the support of children with cochlear implants (CI), it is very important to detect slow developmental processes as early as possible. Data from the LittlEARS® Auditory Questionnaire (LEAQ) from children with early bilateral CI are evaluated and presented in relation to age and hearing age and compared with language development data recorded later.
Materials and Methods: This retrospective multicentre study included data from a total of 554 children for whom at least one LEAQ was completed during the course of CI rehabilitation. Children without additional disabilities who received bilateral simultaneous or sequential CI treatment were included.
Results: As expected, there are high correlations between hearing age (HA) and the overall LEAQ total score. When analysed according to chronological age (CA), development runs roughly parallel to the development of children with normal hearing, albeit at a lower level. Children implanted early up to an age of ≤ 12 months consistently achieve approximately 7-8 raw points more. Only the LEAQ results of the later test times (from the age of 18 months) correlate with some areas of the speech development test for children (SETK; areas 3-5).
Conclusion: The earliest possible detection of critical developmental processes in children with CI is extremely important. In the case of very early CI fitting, the CA should be used as a reference measure in diagnostics. The LEAQ values determined for the group of children with CI are suitable to a limited extent as generally valid reference values for children with early bilateral CI. Further studies should continue to work out the correlations between early preverbal development and later speech development.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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