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Behavioral Assessment of Hearing in 2 to 4 Year-old Children: A Two-interval, Observer-based Procedure Using Conditioned Play-based Responses
Published on: January 23, 2017
Intellectual efficiency of children with unilateral hearing loss
Antoni Niedzielski1, Ewa Humeniuk, Przemysław Błaziak
1Medical University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Szkolna 18, 20-024 Lublin, Poland. antoniniedzielski@wp.pl <antoniniedzielski@wp.pl>
Objective:
The aim of our study was to observe the consequences of unilateral hearing loss with regard to intellectual functioning and development of children.
Methods:
The studies were conducted on the group of 64 children (42 boys and 22 girls) aged 6-16 years with left- or right-sided hearing loss using D. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC).
Results:
Children with right-sided hearing loss had a limited range of concepts, lower capability of learning verbal material and logical reasoning, abstract thinking and classifying. Left-sided hearing loss caused deterioration of intellectual abilities within non-verbal intelligence. Such a children had poorer abilities for analyzing, synthesizing and visual memory, worse spatial imagination and visual coordination.
Conclusions:
The examined children with unilateral hearing loss achieved the intelligence quotient on the average level in D. Wechsler Intelligence Scale. The side of hearing loss has a significant influence on the development of individual intellectual functions.
