1- Tehran University 2- University of Tehran Medical Sciences 3-
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Objective: This study was designed to investigate the effect of Cued Speech (CS) on speech perception abilities of elementary school students with hearing impairment in Tehran. Method: In this experimental design study, with pretest, post-test and control group, participants were 16 students having profoundly hearing impairment ageing 9-12, whom were selected from Tehran special schools for hearing impaired students. Eight children were taught Cued Speech for five months in an everyday 45-60 minutes sessions program .They were matched with 8 hearing impaired children as the control group. Both control and experimental groups were presented with Auditory Perception test (APT-HI) as pretest, post-test and follow-up. Mixed Repeated Measurement was used to analyze the data. Results: CS substantially improved performance of the experimental group (p<0.05) but there was no significantly important difference between pre-test, post-test and following scores of the control group (p<0.05). Conclusion: This study supports the use of Persian CS for improving auditory perception abilities in the hearing-impaired children.
Movallali G, Afrooz G A, Hassanzadeh S, Malakooti B, Abdollahzadeh Rafi M. Speech Perception by Students with Profoundly Hearing Impairment: The Role of Persian Cued Speech. JOEC 2012; 11 (4) :335-342 URL: http://joec.ir/article-1-212-en.html