Assessment protocol for Auditory and Language Abilities in Cochlear Implanted Children used in Sohag university hospital

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Objectives: The aim of this study is to develop Sohag protocol for assessment of auditory and language abilities in patients in patients with cochlear implant in order to provide better management of cases. 
Patients and methods: After meticulous revision of the majority of literature pertaining to cochlear implant assessment protocol in children of cochlear implant. We chose 3 main protocols to develop our protocol which are protocol of Ain Shams Phoniatrics Unit (Kotby et al., 1995), Nottingham Early Assessment Package (NEAP)) Nikolopoulos et al., 2005) and EARS test battery(Evaluation of Auditory Responses to Speech) (Esser-Leyding, 2012). We developed a new protocol that suits our patients in the cochlear implantation program. The new protocol was presented and revised by the phoniatricans of Sohag university phoniastrics unit then it was applied on 130 consecutive patients before and after implantation and rehabilitation sessions.
Results: The results of the operation were statistically significant reflecting improvement in auditory and language abilities of patients after the operation.
Conclusions: Comparing Sohag Phoniatric unit protocol of assessment with other protocols indicated that our protocol added many significant items needed in the valuation as evaluation of auditory skills, hours of parent participation at home and regularity of sessions.

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