Effectiveness of Attentive Rehabilitation of Attention and Memory (ARAM) on Phonological Working Memory Span and Language Development of Children with Cochlear Implant

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of attentive rehabilitation of attention and memory (ARAM) on phonological working memory span and expressive and receptive language development in cochlear implant deaf children. This study was a quasi -experimental design with a pretest- posttest design with a control group and one momnth follow-up. Participants were 16 cochlear implanted children aged 6 to 8/9 years in exceptional elementary schools of Ahwaz in 2018- 2019 school year that were been selected with an available sampling method and randomly replaced in the experimental and control groups. Each group was include 8 person and both groups were evaluated by Wechsler Memory Scale subtest and Told-p: 3 (Persian version) in the same condition. The experimental group received 8 sessions and each session lasts for 45 minutes per a month of ARAM and the control group did not received any training. Both groups were evaluated again at the end of intervention and 1 month after that. Data analyzed with mixed analysis of variance (2×3). Phonological working memory span and expressive and receptive language development scores of children who received the ARAM was improved significantly rather than they who did not received that.