title: Audiovisual spoken word recognition as a clinical criterion for sensory aids efficiency in Persian-language children with hearing loss.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to examine the role of audiovisual speech recognition as a clinical criterion of cochlear implant or hearing aid efficiency in Persian-language children with severe-to-profound hearing loss.
  
  
  METHODS
  This research was administered as a cross-sectional study. The sample size was 60 Persian 5-7 year old children. The assessment tool was one of subtests of Persian version of the Test of Language Development-Primary 3. The study included two experiments: auditory-only and audiovisual presentation conditions. The test was a closed-set including 30 words which were orally presented by a speech-language pathologist.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The scores of audiovisual word perception were significantly higher than auditory-only condition in the children with normal hearing (P<0.01) and cochlear implant (P<0.05); however, in the children with hearing aid, there was no significant difference between word perception score in auditory-only and audiovisual presentation conditions (P>0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The audiovisual spoken word recognition can be applied as a clinical criterion to assess the children with severe to profound hearing loss in order to find whether cochlear implant or hearing aid has been efficient for them or not; i.e. if a child with hearing impairment who using CI or HA can obtain higher scores in audiovisual spoken word recognition than auditory-only condition, his/her auditory skills have appropriately developed due to effective CI or HA as one of the main factors of auditory habilitation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Majid
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Oryadi-Zanjani
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: vahabm@sums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vahab
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mozhdeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bazrafkan
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Asghar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haghjoo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D008085:Lipreading; D013067:Speech Perception
keywords: Audiovisual; Cochlear implant; Hearing aid; Hearing impairment; Persian-language children; Spoken word recognition