Abstract

Background: This paper focus to know the relationship between hearing loss and language outcomes for deaf Iraqi children through a cross-sectional study conducted in different hospitals in Iraq, where information and demographic data were collected for 130 children whose ages ranged from 5 to 16 years and they were distributed according to gender: 100 boys and 30 females. In this study, results were evaluated according to several measures (Degree of Hearing Loss (4FAHL), PedsQL), and the data were analyzed statistically according to the IBM SOFT SPSS program To find mean value and standard regression in addition to the value of logistic regression to risk coefficient in this study. Results which found in this study according to Degree of Hearing Loss (4FAHL) classified to 4 types (Mild 23.6±5.9 dB, Moderate 49±6.6 for 55 patients with 42.3%, Severe 70.1±4.4 for 20 patients with 15.3%, Profound 90±4.3 for 10patients with 7.6% and  were found  low results according to compared with the control group, where Child Development was Inventory developmental quotient;(64 ±12 ), Preschool Language Scale(73±12 ) and we found A statistically significant relationship between quality of life with outcomes of the patient at p-value 0.01

Keywords

Language, Deaf, PedsQL, Hearing, Loss, 4FAHL, Developmental.