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The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants

PURPOSE: Auditory selective attention (ASA) is crucial to focus on significant auditory stimuli without being distracted by irrelevant auditory signals and plays an important role in language development. The present study aimed to investigate the unique contribution of ASA to the linguistic levels...

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Autores principales: Nicastri, Maria, Giallini, Ilaria, Inguscio, Bianca Maria Serena, Turchetta, Rosaria, Guerzoni, Letizia, Cuda, Domenico, Portanova, Ginevra, Ruoppolo, Giovanni, Dincer D’Alessandro, Hilal, Mancini, Patrizia
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35831674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07463-y
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author Nicastri, Maria
Giallini, Ilaria
Inguscio, Bianca Maria Serena
Turchetta, Rosaria
Guerzoni, Letizia
Cuda, Domenico
Portanova, Ginevra
Ruoppolo, Giovanni
Dincer D’Alessandro, Hilal
Mancini, Patrizia
author_facet Nicastri, Maria
Giallini, Ilaria
Inguscio, Bianca Maria Serena
Turchetta, Rosaria
Guerzoni, Letizia
Cuda, Domenico
Portanova, Ginevra
Ruoppolo, Giovanni
Dincer D’Alessandro, Hilal
Mancini, Patrizia
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description PURPOSE: Auditory selective attention (ASA) is crucial to focus on significant auditory stimuli without being distracted by irrelevant auditory signals and plays an important role in language development. The present study aimed to investigate the unique contribution of ASA to the linguistic levels achieved by a group of cochlear implanted (CI) children. METHODS: Thirty-four CI children with a median age of 10.05 years were tested using both the “Batteria per la Valutazione dell’Attenzione Uditiva e della Memoria di Lavoro Fonologica nell’età evolutiva-VAUM-ELF” to assess their ASA skills, and two Italian standardized tests to measure lexical and morphosyntactic skills. A regression analysis, including demographic and audiological variables, was conducted to assess the unique contribution of ASA to language skills. RESULTS: The percentages of CI children with adequate ASA performances ranged from 50 to 29.4%. Bilateral CI children performed better than their monolateral peers. ASA skills contributed significantly to linguistic skills, accounting alone for the 25% of the observed variance. CONCLUSIONS: The present findings are clinically relevant as they highlight the importance to assess ASA skills as early as possible, reflecting their important role in language development. Using simple clinical tools, ASA skills could be studied at early developmental stages. This may provide additional information to outcomes from traditional auditory tests and may allow us to implement specific training programs that could positively contribute to the development of neural mechanisms of ASA and, consequently, induce improvements in language skills.
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spelling pubmed-98131622023-01-06 The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants Nicastri, Maria Giallini, Ilaria Inguscio, Bianca Maria Serena Turchetta, Rosaria Guerzoni, Letizia Cuda, Domenico Portanova, Ginevra Ruoppolo, Giovanni Dincer D’Alessandro, Hilal Mancini, Patrizia Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol Otology PURPOSE: Auditory selective attention (ASA) is crucial to focus on significant auditory stimuli without being distracted by irrelevant auditory signals and plays an important role in language development. The present study aimed to investigate the unique contribution of ASA to the linguistic levels achieved by a group of cochlear implanted (CI) children. METHODS: Thirty-four CI children with a median age of 10.05 years were tested using both the “Batteria per la Valutazione dell’Attenzione Uditiva e della Memoria di Lavoro Fonologica nell’età evolutiva-VAUM-ELF” to assess their ASA skills, and two Italian standardized tests to measure lexical and morphosyntactic skills. A regression analysis, including demographic and audiological variables, was conducted to assess the unique contribution of ASA to language skills. RESULTS: The percentages of CI children with adequate ASA performances ranged from 50 to 29.4%. Bilateral CI children performed better than their monolateral peers. ASA skills contributed significantly to linguistic skills, accounting alone for the 25% of the observed variance. CONCLUSIONS: The present findings are clinically relevant as they highlight the importance to assess ASA skills as early as possible, reflecting their important role in language development. Using simple clinical tools, ASA skills could be studied at early developmental stages. This may provide additional information to outcomes from traditional auditory tests and may allow us to implement specific training programs that could positively contribute to the development of neural mechanisms of ASA and, consequently, induce improvements in language skills. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-07-13 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9813162/ /pubmed/35831674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07463-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Otology
Nicastri, Maria
Giallini, Ilaria
Inguscio, Bianca Maria Serena
Turchetta, Rosaria
Guerzoni, Letizia
Cuda, Domenico
Portanova, Ginevra
Ruoppolo, Giovanni
Dincer D’Alessandro, Hilal
Mancini, Patrizia
The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants
title The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants
title_full The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants
title_fullStr The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants
title_full_unstemmed The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants
title_short The influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants
title_sort influence of auditory selective attention on linguistic outcomes in deaf and hard of hearing children with cochlear implants
topic Otology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9813162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35831674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07463-y
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