ERKEN DÖNEMDE KOKLEAR İMPLANT UYGULANAN ÇOCUKLARDA OYUN DAVRANIŞI, KELİME HAZİNESİ VE DİL GELİŞİMİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

KORKMAZ, E. B. Evaluation of the Relationship between Play Behavior, Vocabulary and Language Development in Children with Early Cochlear Implants, Hacettepe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, MSc Thesis in Audiology, Ankara, 2022. The aim of the study is to children who started to use cochlear implants in the early period were investigated to evaluate the relationship between play behaviors, vocabulary and language development and to compare it with the children in the normal hearing control group. In the study group, 21 children with cochlear implants between the ages of 4;00 and 6;11 a total of 42 children, including 21 children with normal hearing and age matched in the control group, were included in the study on a voluntary basis. In the study, the Turkish version of ‘Test of Language Development Primary Fourth edition (TOLD-P4) test to evaluate the language skills of the participants, the Turkish expressive and receptive language test (TIFALDI) to evaluate the vocabulary, f or evaluate the play behavior skills, evaluated by the teachers of the participants the 36-71-month-old Children's Play behavior scale and Functioning After Pediatric Cochlear Implantation (FAPCI) form was used for only using the cochlear implant childrens the families to be filled. When the findings obtained at the end of the study were analyzed, it was observed that TOLD-P4 scale scores were higher in the control group on the basis of all sub-dimensions (p=0.01, p0.05). Differently, in terms of social play levels, it was seen that the social play levels of the students in the study group were lower than the control group (p=0.02, p0,05). Farklı olarak sosyal oyun düzeyleri açısından çalışma grubundaki öğrencilerin sosyal oyun düzeylerinin kontrol grubuna göre anlamlı derecede düşük olduğu görülmüştür (p=0,02, p