Chilean Spanish transcultural adaptation of CAP-II and SIR scales in an online format for parents of children with hearing aids or cochlear implants

Spoken language acquisition is challenging for very young deaf or hard-of-hearing children (DHH) who wear hearing aids cochlear implants (CI). Timely decision-making treatment essential these and requires suitable assessments. Two such assessments are the Categories of Auditory Performance Index II (CAP-II) Speech Intelligibility Rating Scale (SIR). These have been shown to be helpful ongoing evaluation developing speech perception spoken skills in various languages, but they not available Chilean Spanish. This study aimed create a Spanish translation CAP-II SIR appropriate online self-administration by parents-caregivers Chile assist professionals monitoring DHH children’s progress, considering COVID-19 restrictions. The methods used process started with translating self-report proposal from original English versions scales. Finally, were tested 107 CIs. results suggest instruments use context.