Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences & Research

Is School Function in Children with Down syndrome be same as their Normally Developing Peers? A Preliminary Study

Farnoush Khosravi; minoo kalantari; Marzieh Pashmdarfard; Hamidreza Rostami; Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban; Faezeh Heidari Beni

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 22 April 2024

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Background: Active participation in school is an effective way to develop children's cognitive and social development. Children with Down syndrome (DS) confront various problems in ... Read More

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Consistency between Schedule for Oral-Motor Assessment – Persian and Fluoroscopic Barium Swallow Study

Manijeh Zarei Mahmood Abadi; Fariba Yadegari; Mehrzad Mehdizade; Lida Sharifi-Rad; Enayatollah Bakhsh

Volume 10, Issue 4 , December 2023, , Pages 182-187

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Background: A swallowing disorder is one of the most common problems in the pediatric population. Schedule for Oral-Motor Assessment (SOMA) has become one of the best methods for the ... Read More

Adaptation and Psychometric Features of a Parent Report Measure to Profile Conversational Skills in Persian-Speaking Children with and without Language Disorders

Masoomeh Salmani; Fatemeh Paknazar; Jalal Bakhtiyari; Marziyeh Maddah; Fatemeh Malayjerdi; Amir Shakibi

Volume 10, Issue 3 , September 2023, , Pages 162-173

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Backgrounds: Language professionals require effective tools to gather accurate information about children's language in diverse settings. This study aimed to create a Persian version ... Read More Backgrounds: Language professionals require effective tools to gather accurate information about children's language in diverse settings. This study aimed to create a Persian version of the Preschoolers' Conversational Skills scale and gather initial data on conversational skills in children with and without language disorders.Method: The study primarily aimed to adapt an English research instrument into a Persian version. To achieve this goal, the research team employed a comprehensive process, including forward translation, synthesis of translations (harmony), backward translations (consolidation), expert committee review, cognitive interviewing, test of pre-final version, and submission and appraisal of all written reports. The participants involved in this process consisted of four translators, a statistician, a linguist, a speech therapist, the research team, eleven language professionals, ten mothers for cognitive interviewing, and 114 mothers for pretesting the final adapted version. A test-retest approach was utilized to assess the scale's reliability.Results: During the translation process, there were no complicated words or phrases encountered. The expert panel retained all items from the adapted version, adding examples to two items. Participants who evaluated the Persian version found the items clear and straightforward. The Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Scale Content Validity Index (S-CVI) were 1 and above 0.9, respectively, indicating high content validity. The Cronbach's alpha value, which measures the scale's internal consistency, was calculated to be 0.9, signifying a high level of reliability. The scale used cut-off points of at or below 2.5, between 2.5 and 4.8, and at or above 4.8 to categorize children based on their conversational skills.Conclusion: the adapted version of the Preschoolers’ Conversational Skills scale has demonstrated excellent validity and high reliability. Moreover, the scale is easy and quick to administer, making it suitable for use in clinical settings to evaluate children's pragmatic language abilities. Based on the scale's categorization, children can be classified into three groups: "no or infrequent pragmatic skills," "emerging pragmatic skills," and "well-developed pragmatic skills."

Comparison of Auditory Localization Ability between Preschool Bilateral Hearing-Impaired Children and Normal Hearing Children

Nasrin Gohari; Zahra Hosseini dastgerdi; Foozieh Dehghani; Ehsan Negin; Atta Heidari

Volume 10, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 100-105

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Background: Sound localization is a valuable skill whose maturation is influenced by auditory experience and is limited by bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. No study has assessed ... Read More

A systematic review of speech recognition assessment tools for Persian-speaking children with and without hearing disorders

Mohammad Majid Oryadi-Zanjani

Volume 9, Issue 4 , December 2022, , Pages 143-150

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Background Speech recognition is a significant component of speech perception assessment as a main clinical target in children with hearing disorders. The current article presents ... Read More

Sentence Repetition Task as a Measure to Detect Developmental Language Disorder in Persian

Mohammad Majid Oryadi-Zanjani; Pardis Yari; Zahra Kalkateh

Volume 9, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 134-137

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Background Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common disorder in childhood. The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of Persian-speaking children on sentence ... Read More

The Role of Physical Activity in Children with Type 1 Diabetes during Quarantine and COVID-19 Pandemic: Narrative Review

Mina Ahmadi Kakavandi; Shahnaz Shahrbanian; mozhgan rezvani rad; Anthony Hackney

Volume 8, Issue 4 , December 2021, , Pages 151-157

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Background: The rapid and unprecedented outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), which spread rapidly around the world in late 2019, prompted the World Health Organization to declare ... Read More

Lexical Effects on Spoken Word Recognition in Children with Hearing Impairment: Test-Retest Reliability of the Persian Lexical Neighborhood Tests

Mohammad Majid Oryadi-Zanjani; Maryam Vahab

Volume 8, Issue 4 , December 2021, , Pages 169-175

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Background: The current study investigated lexical effects on the recognitionof spoken words in Persian-speaking children with hearing impairment usingPersian lexical neighborhood tests ... Read More

The Grammatical Deficits of Persian-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment

Zahra Ghayoumi-Anaraki; Fatemeh Haresabadi; Toktam Maleki Shahmahmood; Abbas Ebadi; Veda Vakili; Zahra Majidi

Volume 4, Issue 4 , December 2017, , Pages 102-108

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Background: Specific language impairment (SLI) is one of the most common disorders of language development in children, which has been less addressed in Persian studies. The aim of ... Read More

A Computer-Based Sustained Visual Attention Test for Pre-School Children: Design, Development and Psychometric Properties

Roohollah Zahediannasb; Malahat Akbarfahimi; Mohammad Reza Keyhani

Volume 3, Issue 2 , June 2016, , Pages 39-44

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Background: Sustained visual attention is a prerequisite for learning and memory. The early evaluation of attention in childhood is essential for their school and career success in ... Read More

Development and Validation of the Persian Version of the Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) Test in Normal Children Aged 5-8 Years

Abdollah Moossavi; Najmeh Shokoufeh; Saeideh Mehrkian; Akbar Biglarian; Younes Lotfi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , June 2016, , Pages 45-50

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Background: The goal of the present study was to develop and validate the Persian version of the Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) test in normal, Persian-speaking children aged 5-8 years.Methods: ... Read More

Translation and Adaptation of the Auditory Behavior in Everyday Life (ABEL) Questionnaire into Persian: A Pilot Study.

Majid Oryadi Zanjani; Suzanne C. Purdy; Maryam Vahab; Javad Rasouli; Mahla Vasfinia; Zohreh Lotf

Volume 2, Issue 3 , September 2015, , Pages 63-67

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Background: Auditory rehabilitation isone of the important tasks of speech-language pathologists. So, it is necessary to know auditory behaviors in order to make some decisions about ... Read More Background: Auditory rehabilitation isone of the important tasks of speech-language pathologists. So, it is necessary to know auditory behaviors in order to make some decisions about the children with hearing loss such as determining the effectiveness of the current rehabilitation programs and/or devices. The Auditory Behavior in Everyday Life (ABEL) questionnaire is a valid and reliable assessment tool in English which is developed by Purdy et al. (1995). The aim of this study was to translate and adapt ABEL questionnaire for Persian language.Methods:The ABEL consists of three factors ofauditory-oral, auditory awareness, and conversational/social skills. First, the questionnaire was translated and culturally adapted from English to Persian by an independent Iranian translator. The back translated version was compared with the original one in terms of the semantic/idiomatic equivalence. Then the questionnaire was completed two times by 43 mothers of 4-to-6 year old children with hearing loss who were using either hearing aids or cochlear implants. Finally, the results of the test-retest reliability were statistically compared in order to assess internal consistency. The statistical tests which were used include Cronbach’s Alpha, Spearman correlation, and Pearson correlation tests in significance level of 0.05.Results: There was a significant strength correlation among the items of the factor 1 (Alpha=0.94), factor 2 (Alpha=0.86), factor 3 (Alpha=0.82) and three factors (Alpha=0.96). There was a significant strength correlation at the 0.01 level between the scores of each factor in test-retest include auditory-oral (Spearman’s rho=0.94, P<0.001), auditory awareness (Spearman’s rho=0.92, P<0.001), and conversational/social skills (Spearman’s rho=0.82, P<0.001).Conclusion: The Persian version of ABEL questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool for the assessment of auditory performance development in Persian-speaking children wearing hearing aids or cochlear implants. So, the ABEL questionnaire can be applied by parents/caregivers, clinicians, and researchers in order to appraise children’s auditory behaviors in everyday living.

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Is School Function in Children with Down syndrome be same as their Normally Developing Peers? A Preliminary Study

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Consistency between Schedule for Oral-Motor Assessment – Persian and Fluoroscopic Barium Swallow Study

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Adaptation and Psychometric Features of a Parent Report Measure to Profile Conversational Skills in Persian-Speaking Children with and without Language Disorders

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Comparison of Auditory Localization Ability between Preschool Bilateral Hearing-Impaired Children and Normal Hearing Children

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A systematic review of speech recognition assessment tools for Persian-speaking children with and without hearing disorders

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Sentence Repetition Task as a Measure to Detect Developmental Language Disorder in Persian

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The Role of Physical Activity in Children with Type 1 Diabetes during Quarantine and COVID-19 Pandemic: Narrative Review

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Lexical Effects on Spoken Word Recognition in Children with Hearing Impairment: Test-Retest Reliability of the Persian Lexical Neighborhood Tests

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The Grammatical Deficits of Persian-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment

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A Computer-Based Sustained Visual Attention Test for Pre-School Children: Design, Development and Psychometric Properties

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Development and Validation of the Persian Version of the Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) Test in Normal Children Aged 5-8 Years

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Translation and Adaptation of the Auditory Behavior in Everyday Life (ABEL) Questionnaire into Persian: A Pilot Study.

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