Investigate of the Effectiveness of Navayesh Family-Based Multimedia Virtual Aural Rehabilitation Program on the Auditory Perception Performance Rate and Speech of Deaf Children with Cochlear Implant

The present study was done to investigate of the effectiveness of Navayesh family-based multimedia virtual aural rehabilitation program on the auditory perception performance rate and speech of deaf children with cochlear implant. The present research was a semi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test design and control group with follow-up. 40 deaf children with cochlear implant aged 2 to 7 years of the Cochlear Implant Center in the Rasul Akram Hospital, Tehran city were selected using purposive sampling. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups.At the first phase, the design of the Internet portal and assignment classification was based on the Navayesh program and was presented in the form of multimedia (audio, image, text), online and offline. At second phase, the experimental group mothers who could not go to the rehabilitation center with their child and received the program weekly, received this program by Portal and Channel of Messenger and Aparat in 80 sessions.Speech Intelligibility Rating and Categories of Auditory Performance were used as the pre-test and post-test to measure social and language, auditory perception skills. Multivariate data analysis with repeated measures design showed that a significant difference in the language, auditory perception of the experimental group, while no such difference was observed in the control group (p>0/001). The results are indicative that the effect of Navayesh family-based multimedia virtual aural rehabilitation program in the speech skill and auditory perception performance on deaf children with cochlear implant.