Participants
This
observational study was performed from February to December 2019 in
[removed
for blind peer review]. Ninety-four children who came to the hospital
for verbal evaluation were recruited. Most of the subjects were children
with hearing loss who used hearing aids or cochlear implants prior to
the examination and children with hearing loss who had congenital
microtia. All of the children exhibited a range of speech and language
skills. Children in this study were able to identify all tested cards
and cooperate to complete the test task. No indications of mental
disability, cleft palate, or pronunciation organ malformation were
documented in the patients’ records.