Measuring communicative performance with the FAPCI instrument: Preliminary results from normal hearing and cochlear implanted children

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• 作者：James H. Clark^a ; ¹ ; Pooja Aggarwal^b ; ¹ ; Nae-Yuh Wang^c ; ^d ; ^e ; Raymond Robinson^b ; John K. Niparko^a ; Frank R. Lin^a ; ^f ; ^{flin1@jhmi.edu}
• 关键词：FAPCI ; Pediatric ; Cochlear implantation ; Communicative performance
• 刊名：International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：April 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：75
• 期：4
• 页码：549-553
• 全文大小：421 K

文摘

Objective

: To develop preliminary “growth curves” of Functioning after Pediatric Cochlear Implantation (FAPCI) scores using a cross-sectional sample of normal hearing children and to compare these curves to trajectories of FAPCI scores in children receiving cochlear implants.

Methods

: Quantile regression was used to develop growth curves from the FAPCI scores of a cross-sectional sample of 82 normal hearing children (age range 7 months–5 years). Trajectories of FAPCI scores from a longitudinal cohort of 75 children with cochlear implants (age range 1–5 years) were compared to these growth curves.

Results

: FAPCI scores were positively associated with increasing age in normal hearing children with a rapid increase in scores observed at earlier ages followed by a plateau at age 3 years. FAPCI trajectories for cochlear-implanted children varied with age at implantation and did not reach a plateau until age 5–6 years.

Conclusion

: Normal hearing children demonstrated increasing FAPCI scores with age, and these preliminary growth curves allow for the interpretation of a cochlear-implanted child's FAPCI scores in comparison to normal hearing children. Additional research using a larger, longitudinal cohort of normal hearing children will be needed to develop definitive normative FAPCI trajectories.