quality of life in pre-lingual deaf children after 1.5 years of cochlear implantation from the point of view of parents in Shiraz, Iran

As much of the studies on cochlear implantation [CI] have concentrated on aspects of speech perception and production, we studied the quality of life in pre-lingual deaf children in Shiaz, Iran. Twenty four parents were selected from those families that their children were implanted by Fars CI Center. The quality of life questionnaire was used and after 3 months was evaluated again. Significant changes were noticed in parent's satisfaction. The parents believed that the children communicated better, but they still needed special care to do school works, etc. Also they had still difficulty in articulation. CI was significantly associated with improvement of quality of life, especially in communication, happiness and relations with their friends and family members

[ process of auditory, speech and language skills development in thirty patients of Fars cochlear implant center]

Rehabilitation is the word most commonly used to describe the support given to facilitate progress following cochlear implantation with adults and children. The process of implantation is to provide access spoken language via audition. In this study the process of auditory skills development, language acquisition and speech perception in 30 patients of Fars cochlear implant center is from April 2004 during 1.5 years period described. The rehabilitation program begins after 40 days of operation and it is included of 80 sessions during one year. The exercises which have done in this period of time are in the field of auditory, language and speech skills. This study shows that there's a close relation between age and improvement in rehabilitation program. Also the critical period for learning language, cooperative parents and the child's learning ability are essential factors for getting good results. The results of this research and other inquiries about Chinese children show that if the period of time for rehabilitation after operation be longer the child will do better and for better results of speech perception progress it is necessary to do operation at the lower ages