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Acknowledgements: National Research Council (NRC TO 14-04) is gratefully acknowledged. Awareness among Sri Lankan first time mothers’ informal identification of newborns’ hearing difficulties and /or hearing disabilities by themselves
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Senanayake, S.M.A.I.
Early identify of hearing difficulties and/or disabilities among newborns are very essential to provide or guide them to further management and/ or rehabilitation options as soon as possible. Hence it is vital step to natural growth of speech and language without any failures. For the study three (3) midwifes were selected by using cluster sampling method. Midwifes were asked to provide list of mothers who become first time mothers during last twelve months time. Sixty (60) mothers were selected by simple random sampling methods via the list of names which was given by midwifes of each district of western province. Selected mothers were asked to complete questioners. The questioner was mainly in two parts; including personal details and the knowledge of identification hearing difficulties among the infants. Based on the information which was given by participants data analyzed by manually. Manually analyzed data concluded that maternal awareness of the identification of hearing difficulties among infants was not affected by geographical area of the mothers or age of the mothers. But it was highly influenced by the level of education of the participants. Readiness or/ and willingness of the acceptance of the new information through professionals or social and public Medias are predisposed by Education level of the mothers‘. Even though they reached their Ordinary Level education, it was not helped to achieve satisfactory level of the score for the questionnaires regarding readiness or/ and willingness of the acceptance of the new information through professionals or social and public Medias of deification of newborns‘ hearing difficulties and /or hearing disabilities by themselves. Respectively it was below 75%. Further there should be national protocol to promote raising awareness among mothers to early identification of their newborns‘ hearing difficulties by themselves. Therefore, usage of island- wild data prevalence is must hence to create more convenient picture regarding the results of the study.
Development of Monosyllabic Trochee Polysyllabic (MTP) Test in Sinhala for Native Language Speakers in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2013) Senanayake, S.M.A.I.
Development of Monosyllabic-Trochee-Polysyllabic (MTP) test in Sinhala aims to be used in measuring auditory performances such as identification and auditory discrimination in children who are audiological rehabilitated with their native language. The study employed a mixed study design, with simple random sampling and multistage sampling methods used to select the sample from the pre-school and school set up. The participants were chosen upon obtaining a written consent form to ensure their voluntary participation in the study. A Total number of two hundred forty (200) subjects were tested, which includes hundred and five (105) males and ninety five (95) females between the ages two (2) to eight (8) years which was then categorized into six (6) sub-groups according to their age. All participants had to be native Sinhala speakers with normal hearing with no audiological and otological problems, with normal speech and language development and of the same age. For this purpose, all participants were directed to a pre-test evaluation. Prior to administering the test, a pilot study was carried out. After that, the test was administered by using a formulated Sinhala MTP word list where the subject was asked to repeat or point out relevant pictures similar to the presented stimuli. Marks were allocated for each correct pattern identification and/or word identification. SPSS analyzing data indicated the MTP performance score was not affected by age group, gender, parental education level of the participants, communication opportunity, having or not having siblings and home environment. Through the study, except ‘kesel’, the rest of the words in Sinhala MTP test, was age appropriate and socio- culturally appropriate for Sinhala speaking children in Sri Lanka. Further, MTP lists can use as a clinical assessment tool for cochlear implantees and hearing aid users.
Performance of Sinhala speaking normative hearing children on Monosyllabic – Trochee – Polysyllabic Test (MTP)
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Senanayake, S.M.A.I.
Development of Monosyllabic-Trochee-Polysyllabic (MTP) test in Sinhala aim is to be used in measuring auditory performances in children who are audiological rehabilitated with their native language. Participants were selected with simple random sampling method, from the preschool and school set up. The participants were chosen upon obtaining written consent form to ensuring their voluntary involvement for the study. A Total number of two hundred (200) subjects were tested, which includes hundred and five (105) males and ninety five (95) females between the ages two (2) to eight (8) years which then was categorized into six (6) sub-groups according to their age. All participants must be native Sinhala speakers with normal hearing with no audiological and otological problems, with normal speech and language development and with equally same age. For this purpose, all participants directed to a pre-test evaluation. Prior to administering the test, a pilot study was carried out. After that, test was administered by using formulated Sinhala MTP word list where the subject was asked to repeat or point out relevant picture similar to the presented stimuli. Marks allocated for each correct pattern identification and/or word identification. SPSS analyzing data indicated the MTP performance score was not affected by age group. Through the study, except the word ―banana‖ (kεsεl), rest of the words in Sinhala MTP test, was age appropriate and socio- culturally appropriate for Sinhala speaking children in Sri Lanka. Further, MTP list can use as a clinical assessment tool for cochlear implantees and hearing aid users. ( Key words- MTP, Auditory performances, Pattern and Word Identification)