The Relationship of Pragmatic Language Competency and Self-Esteem in Hearing-Impaired Children

Background and aim: It is suggested that hearing impaired children with aids cochlear implant, showed poor pragmatic abilities. Pragmatic the most related language component to social interaction. Further, it has effect on personality development self-esteem. The main aim of present study investigating relationship between abilities self-esteem in children. Materials methods: sixty or implant were included into this according inclusion exclusion criteria. Then parents other caregivers asked fulfill Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC) questionnaire. participants divided three groups based impairment severity, including: severe, moderate mild. ability was examined without considering categorization, by Pearson correlation coefficient, significant level 0.05. Ethical considerations: This project approved Arak university medical sciences ethical registration code IR.ARAKMU.REC.1399.150. All gave written informed consent form. findings: results illustrated there all categorization (p<0.05). By mild Conclusion: our analysis, are related. more obvious low severity impairment.