Audiology and Deaf Studies

Biography

Biography: Jasenka broz frajtag

Abstract

Introduction: Otitis media with effusion is desease in the middle ear with no sign of inflamation and common cause of hearing loss worldwide and most common health problem in pre-school and school age. Conductive hearing loss adversely may affect acustic binaural, sound localization, speech perception in noise, impear early language acquisition, behaviour and vertigo. The aim of the study is to exame whether otitis media with effusion and association hearing loss are related to the language development, academic achievement and behavior.

Method: Participants were thirty-nine- average olds distributed among groups according to gender and age group. The diagnostic process included  tonal audiometry, tympanometry and speech audiometry ( discrimination of speech) which were performed repetitively every 7 days during the 6 weeks.

Results: Bilateral conductive hearing loss and tympanograms of B type were present in all tested children. At the age up to 7 years equal number of female and male have speech disorders (mostly articulation) and lack of concentration to the sound in general, speech and events around. At the age of 8 years or higher were much more male than female dominated cognition disorders, behavior problems, learning disabilities and problems with social adaptation. Children in general have more readiness skills in literacy (verbal problems) and math, and lower scoring in recognizing of incomplete words at school age from 8 to older ages. Male children have more learning and behavior disabilities at school age than females. Psychological problems become directly or indirectly in all cases hearing damage included children with speech language pathology. Problems with attention, hard learn, weakly concentration, untidy handwriting, missed some important information and reduced productivity in school activities.

Conclusion: Our results suggested that such structural pathoanathomical changes have more hearing loss impact on left side ears. At least in conductive hearing loss this children have disorders in hearing, verbal expressing, problems in speech, behavior (hiperactivity).

The goal is to intervene before the child is six month. Early rehabilitation for that children is much better and quality in earlier age than afterward.