Cortical Electrophysiological Markers of Language Abilities in Children with Hearing Aids: A Pilot Study
Table 1
Demographic information for the pediatric HA users with bilateral moderate sensorineural HL.
Subject
Gender
Age test (yrs; months)
Duration of auditory deprivation (months)
Age at which child received HA (yrs; months)
Experience xith HA (yrs; months)
Aetiology
Right PTA
Left PTA
BILO score
Group
1
M
8; 3
6
3; 5
4; 10
Unknown
63
69
HL−
2
M
8; 5
3
2; 1
6; 4
Familial
64
65
HL−
3
M
8; 11
4
2
6; 11
Familial
66
66
HL−
4
F
9; 7
2
6; 1
3; 6
Familial
56
56
HL−
5
M
10; 5
2
5; 11
4; 6
Unknown
45
41
HL+
6
M
11; 5
2
5; 11
5; 6
Unknown
41
43
HL+
7
M
11; 8
1
3; 5
8; 3
Familial
55
66
HL+
8
F
12; 1
18
8; 11
3; 2
Unknown
40
41
HL+
9
F
12; 2
6
4; 10
7; 4
Familial
59
45
HL+
10
M
12; 6
5
8; 5
4; 1
Familial
41
41
HL−
11
M
12; 10
6
5; 2
7; 8
Unknown
41
42
HL+
Note: M: male; F: female; yrs: years; HA: hearing aid; PTA: aided pure tone audiometric threshold averaged over 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz; BILO: Batterie Informatisée du Langage Oral; HL+: good language ability; HL−: fair language ability.
