The effect of age at time of cochlear implantation on the pragmatic development of the prelingual hearing impaired children

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 7 Pearson Correlation between the total score of the Egyptian Arabic Pragmatic language test (EAPLT) and the chronological age, the age at time of CI, the duration of the received language rehabilitation and the scores of the modified PLS-4 (Arabic version) among the participated children in the 2 studied groups

Total score of EAPLT
Pearson correlation		Group I (n = 30)		Group II (n = 30)
		Prelingual SNHL children CI before 3 years		Prelingual SNHL children CI after 3 years
		r	p value	r	p value
The chronological age		0.650^**	0.000**	0.492^**	0.006
Age at time of implantation		− 0.136	0.474	− 0.108	0.570
Age at time of starting language rehabilitation		− 0.178	0.346	− 0.257	0.170
Duration of the received language rehabilitation		0.725^*	0.000**	0.520^*	0.003**
The modified PLS-4, Arabic version	Receptive language age	0.891^*	0.000**	0.753^*	0.000**
	Expressive language age	0.913^*	0.000**	0.807^*	0.000**
	Total language age	0.927^*	0.000**	0.785^*	0.000**

*Pearson correlation; r indicates significant correlation at 0.5, ** p value is significant at < 0.01