title: [Test set for the evaluation of hearing and speech development after cochlear implantation in children].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Since autumn 1998 the multicenter interdisciplinary study group "Test Materials for CI Children" has been compiling a uniform examination tool for evaluation of speech and hearing development after cochlear implantation in childhood.
  
  
  METHODS
  After studying the relevant literature, suitable materials were checked for practical applicability, modified and provided with criteria for execution and break-off. For data acquisition, observation forms for preparation of a PC-version were developed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The evaluation set contains forms for master data with supplements relating to postoperative processes. The hearing tests check supra-threshold hearing with loudness scaling for children, speech comprehension in silence (Mainz and Göttingen Test for Speech Comprehension in Childhood) and phonemic differentiation (Oldenburg Rhyme Test for Children), the central auditory processes of detection, discrimination, identification and recognition (modification of the "Frankfurt Functional Hearing Test for Children") and audiovisual speech perception (Open Paragraph Tracking, Kiel Speech Track Program). The materials for speech and language development comprise phonetics-phonology, lexicon and semantics (LOGO Pronunciation Test), syntax and morphology (analysis of spontaneous speech), language comprehension (Reynell Scales), communication and pragmatics (observation forms). The MAIS and MUSS modified questionnaires are integrated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The evaluation set serves quality assurance and permits factor analysis as well as controls for regularity through the multicenter comparison of long-term developmental trends after cochlear implantation.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Germany. a.lamprecht.dinnesen@uni-muenster.de
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mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010700:Phonetics; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013068:Speech Production Measurement