Validation of the LittlEARS® Auditory Questionnaire in children with normal hearing

被引：100

作者：

Coninx, F. ^{[2
]}

Weichbold, V. ^{[3
]}

Tsiakpini, L. ^{[4
]}

Autrique, E. ^{[5
]}

Bescond, G. ^{[6
]}

Tamas, L. ^{[7
]}

Compernol, A. ^{[5
]}

Georgescu, M. ^{[8
]}

Koroleva, I. ^{[9
]}

Le Maner-Idrissi, G. ^{[10
]}

Liang, W. ^{[11
]}

Madell, J. ^{[12
]}

Mikic, B. ^{[13
,14
]}

Obrycka, A. ^{[15
]}

Pankowska, A. ^{[15
]}

Pascu, A. ^{[8
]}

Popescu, R.

Radulescu, L. ^{[16
,17
]}

Rauhamaki, T. ^{[18
]}

Rouev, P. ^{[19
]}

Kabatova, Z. ^{[20
]}

Spitzer, J. ^{[21
]}

Thodi, Ch. ^{[22
]}

Varzic, F. ^{[23
]}

Vischer, M. ^{[24
]}

Wang, L. ^{[11
]}

Zavala, J. S. ^{[21
]}

Brachmaier, J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] MED EL Head Quarters, Dept Clin Res, Innsbruck, Austria

[2] Univ Cologne, Inst Audiopadag, Solingen, Germany

[3] Med Univ, Dept Hearing Voice & Speech Disorders, Innsbruck, Austria

[4] Differential Diag Diag & Support Ctr W, Thessaloniki, Greece

[5] Lessius Hogesch, Antwerp, Belgium

[6] Univ Hosp, ENT Dept, Rennes, France

[7] Hosp ORL, Timisoara, Romania

[8] Inst Phonoaudiol & ENT Funct Surg, Bucharest, Romania

[9] Herzens Russian State Pedag Univ, St Petersburgs Res Inst ENT & Speech, St Petersburg, Russia

[10] Univ Rennes, Dept Dev Psychol, Rennes, France

[11] Rehabil Res Ctr Deaf Children, Beijing, Peoples R China

[12] New York Eye & Ear Infirm, New York, NY 10003 USA

[13] Clin Ctr Serbia, Inst ENT, Belgrade, Serbia

[14] Clin Ctr Serbia, HNS, Belgrade, Serbia

[15] Int Ctr Hearing & Speech, Inst Physiol & Pathol Hearing, Warsaw, Poland

[16] Conf Univ Dr An Lucian Blaga Univ, Dept Psychol, Sibiu, Romania

[17] Univ Med & Pharm Gr T Popa, Iasi, Romania

[18] Univ Dept Speech Sci, Helsinki, Finland

[19] St Ivan Rilski Hosp, ENT Clin, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

[20] Univ Hosp, ENT Dept 1, Bratislava, Slovakia

[21] Columbia Univ, New York, NY USA

[22] Cyprus Audiol Ctr, Nicosia, Cyprus

[23] Hearing & Speech Ctr, Maribor, Slovenia

[24] Univ ENT Clin, Bern, Switzerland

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY | 2009年 / 73卷 / 12期

关键词：

LittlEARS (R) Auditory Questionnaire; Cochlear implant; Infants and toddlers; Early implantation; Auditory development; Auditory behaviours; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; AGE; INFANTS; SPEECH; CANDIDACY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ijporl.2009.09.036

中图分类号：

R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];

学科分类号：

100213 ;

摘要：

Objectives: With more children receiving cochlear implants during infancy, there is a need for validated assessments of pre-verbal and early verbal auditory skills. The LittlEARS (R) Auditory Questionnaire is presented here as the first module of the LittlEARS (R) test battery. The LittlEARS (R) Auditory Questionnaire was developed and piloted to assess the auditory behaviour of normal hearing children and hearing impaired children who receive a cochlear implant or hearing aid prior to 24 months of age. This paper presents results from two studies: one validating the LittlEARS (R) Auditory Questionnaire on children with normal hearing who are German speaking and a second validating the norm curves found after adaptation and administration of the questionnaire to children with normal hearing in 15 different languages. Methods: Scores from a group of 218 German and Austrian children with normal hearing between 5 days and 24 months of age were used to create a norm curve. The questionnaire was adapted from the German original into English and then 15 other languages to date. Regression curves were found based on parental responses from 3309 normal hearing infants and toddlers. Curves for each language were compared to the original German validation curve. Results: The results of the first study were a norm curve which reflects the age-dependence of auditory behaviour, reliability and homogeneity as a measure of auditory behaviour, and calculations of expected and critical values as a function of age. Results of the second study show that the regression curves found for all the adapted languages are essentially equal to the German norm curve, as no statistically significant differences were found. Conclusions: The LittlEARS (R) Auditory Questionnaire is a valid, language-independent tool for assessing the early auditory behaviour of infants and toddlers with normal hearing. The results of this study suggest that the LittlEARS (R) Auditory Questionnaire could also be very useful for documenting children's progress with their current amplification, providing evidence of the need for implantation, or highlighting the need for follow-up in other developmental areas. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：1761 / 1768

页数：8

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