A Case Study Assessing the Auditory and Speech Development of Four Children Implanted with Cochlear Implants by the Chronological Age of 12 Months
Table 1
Outcomes of age-appropriate speech development tests SETK-2, SETK-3–5, and SETK-4-5, presenting -values of four bilaterally cochlear implanted children, implanted at under two years of age.
Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
Case 4
-value (%)
-value (%)
-value (%)
-value (%)
SETK-2
Comprehension I and II:
Word comprehension
45 (30.8)
54 (65.5)
61 (88.5)
54 (65.5)
Sentence comprehension
41 (18.4)
—
41 (18.4)
54 (65.5)
Speech production I and II:
Word production
47 (38.2)
76 (99.5)
56 (72.6)
—
Sentence production
34 (5.5)
—
—
—
SETK-3–5
Sentence comprehension
50 (50.0)
55 (69.2)
50 (50.0)
—
Encoding semantic relations
45 (30.9)
—
65 (93.3)
—
Morphological syntax
42 (21.2)
62 (88.5)
—
—
Phonological working memory for nonsense words
39 (13.6)
57 (75.8)
—
—
SETK-4-5
Sentence comprehension
55 (69.2)
62 (88.5)
53 (61.8)
47 (38.2)
Morphological syntax
39 (13.6)
63 (90.3)
41 (18.4)
64 (91.9)
Phonological working memory for nonsense words
46 (34.5)
43 (24.2)
—
—
Memory span (word)
38 (11.5)
58 (78.8)
49 (46.0)
55 (69.2)
—indicates child was not tested or refused cooperation at this test interval. % indicates percentile rank.
