Tracking development of speech recognition: Longitudinal data from hierarchical assessments in the childhood development after cochlear implantation study

Nae Yuh Wang, Laurie S. Eisenberg, Karen C. Johnson, Nancy E. Fink, Emily A. Tobey, Alexandra L. Quittner, John K. Niparko, Karen Johnson, Jean DesJardin, Melinda Gillinger, William Luxford, Amy Martinez, Leslie Visser-Dumont, Carren Stika, Sophie Ambrose, Dianne Hammes-Ganguly, Jennifer Mertes, Steve Bowditch, Jill Chinnici, Howard FrancisRick Ostrander, Jennifer Yeagle, Nancy Mellon, Mary O Leary Kane, Sarah Wainscott, Jennifer Wallace, Annelle Hodges, Thomas Balkany, Alina Lopez, Leslie Goodwin, Stacy Payne, Teresa Zwolan, Amy Donaldson, H. Alexander Arts, Brandi Butler, Hussam El-Kashlam, Krista Heavner, Mary Beth O'Sullivan, Steve Telian, Ellen Thomas, Anita Vereb, Carolyn J. Brown, Holly F B Teagle, Craig A. Buchman, Carlton Zdanski, Hannah Eskridge, Harold C. Pillsbury, Betty Loy, Paul Bauer, Angela Boyd, Laura Cantu, Carol Cokely, Sarah Florence, Janee Gisclair, Laura Levitan, Joy Penrad, Shannon Raby, Jamie Rasmus, Peter Roland, Heather MacFadyen, Donise Pearson, Deborah M. Rekart, Lauren Sacar, Melissa Sweeney, Linsey Wagner, Nicole Weissner, Berkley Williams, Patricia Bayton, Thelma Vilche, Daniel Habtemariam, Alexandra Quittner, Pam Leibach, Ivette Cruz, Noel Cohen, Julia Evans, Ann Geers, Karen Iler Kirk

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To develop a speech recognition index that summarizes data collected through an array of age-appropriate hierarchical speech recognition tests in a longitudinal study. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort. SETTING: Six tertiary referral centers in the Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation (CDaCI) Study. PATIENTS: One hundred eighty-eight children implanted at age 5 years or younger and 97 age-comparable normal-hearing controls. INTERVENTION: Cochlear implantation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Outcome measures were the following: Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale, Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale, Early Speech Perception Test, Pediatric Speech Intelligibility Test, Multisyllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test, Lexical Neighborhood Test, and Hearing in Noise Test, obtained before implantation and at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months postimplant. RESULTS: A speech recognition cumulative index, speech recognition index in quiet (SRI-Q), was created to combine information from tests administered in quiet. This index allows simultaneous display of data from all tests in the speech recognition hierarchy and is sensitive to improvements in performance over time as a function of age. SRI-Q also provides a composite of performance on multiple tests, allowing both the tracking of "growth curve" in speech recognition across a wide age range over an extended follow-up period and the comparison of normal-hearing and implanted children on multiple measures. The data range for individual tests is also preserved for ease of interpretation. CONCLUSION: SRI-Q allows tracking of global development of speech recognition over time as children progress through a hierarchy of speech perception measures and complements the more detailed assessments obtained from individual tests within the hierarchy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)240-245
Number of pages6
JournalOtology and Neurotology
Volume29
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2008

Keywords

  • Hierarchical testing
  • Pediatric cochlear implantation
  • Speech recognition
  • Summary index

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Otorhinolaryngology
  • Sensory Systems
  • Clinical Neurology

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