Abstract
The purpose of the study is to identify the important aspects of quality of life assessed in children with cochlear implant. Parental Perspective questionnaire with modified in Bangla was used as a data collection tool in this study. Data was collected through face to face interview with 25 parents of children with Cochlear Implant (CI) attended at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka. Among 25 cochlear implant children, the boys (12) and girls (13) were nearly the same. Results indicated that the majority of the children had difficulties with communication with known people (48.00%) and before implantation children with CI obtained no benefit at all from hearing aids (76.00%). However, the research finding shows that they are largely satisfied with the outcomes from implantation. Improvement of social relationship, family well-being, within the family, educational condition, and self-reliance was satisfactorily reported by the parents. This study would help the clinician, speech pathologist, children and parents to raise awareness about the impact of CI and its treatment.
Highlights
Cochlear Implant (CI) is an electronic device that is implanted into the ear surgically to provide a sense of sound to the deaf or patients who have hearing impairment
Children may learn to use the sensations provided by their implants in different ways, so audiometric measures do not tell us directly about the child’s use of the implant in everyday life; this is why they are often complemented by measures of language development and educational achievement [6]
It is concluded that parents are mostly satisfied with the results from implantation. Their children have developed with a social relationship, family well-being, and communication within the family after implantation
Summary
Cochlear Implant (CI) is an electronic device that is implanted into the ear surgically to provide a sense of sound to the deaf or patients who have hearing impairment. Children may learn to use the sensations provided by their implants in different ways, so audiometric measures do not tell us directly about the child’s use of the implant in everyday life; this is why they are often complemented by measures of language development and educational achievement [6]. Children with hearing loss have explained children’s developmental patterns in relation to the various processes associated with language and literacy acquisition (e.g., phonemic awareness, speech perception, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension) in typically developing children [8]. This study would be helpful to add knowledge and in making speech and language therapist awareness about the quality of life for parents of children with cochlear implants. Speech and language therapists can use this information for doing best practice by parents of children communication and concerning functional well-being status of the cochlear implants children
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