/Objectives: Children with severe-to-profound hearing loss and additional disabilities, receiving cochlear implant (CI), require multidimensional outcome measures that extend beyond conventional assessments of auditory perception and spoken language....
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Discussion
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No actionable practice change at this stage; this is a preliminary validation of an Italian-language outcome tool and requires larger confirmatory studies before adoption in Italian-speaking clinics.
Extending validated outcome frameworks like EarlyCaLL to new languages increases equity in monitoring developmental progress among cochlear-implant recipients with complex needs across different countries.
- 01EarlyCaLL framework translated into Italian and culturally adapted for local clinical use.
- 02Target population: children with severe-to-profound hearing loss plus additional disabilities using cochlear implants.
- 03Study represents a preliminary validation — larger normative samples are still needed.
- 04Cross-cultural adaptation process was followed to preserve construct validity.
- 05Expands available outcome measurement tools for Italian-speaking audiologists and educators.
The Italian version of EarlyCaLL shows preliminary validity for assessing cognitive and listening outcomes in children with hearing loss and additional disabilities.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42930358
- DOI
- 10.3390/audiolres16050160.
- Journal
- Audiology Research
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Children with severe-to-profound hearing loss and additional disabilities receiving cochlear implants (Italian-speaking context)
- Intervention
- Italian translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the EarlyCaLL outcome framework
Primary outcomes
Preliminary validity of the Italian EarlyCaLL version; Cross-cultural equivalence of the adapted framework