Development of speech intelligibility and narrative abilities and their interrelationship three and five years after paediatric cochlear implantation.

摘要: This study sought to determine the level of speech intelligibility, narrative abilities, and their interrelationship in 18 Finnish children implanted at the average age of three years, four months. Additionally, background factors associated with speech intelligibility and storytelling ability were examined. Speech intelligibility was examined by means of an item identification task with five listeners per child. Three and five years after activation of the implant, the children reached average intelligibility scores of 53% and 81%, respectively …