326 Winter 2017. Vol 17. Num 4 REHABILITATION * Corresponding Author: Fatemeh Nikkhoo, PhD Candiadte Address: Department of Psychology and Educaion of Excepional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Educaion, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98 (21) 88931417 E-Mail: fnikkhoo@ut.ac.ir Research Paper: Efect of Navayesh Parent-Based Comprehensive Rehabilitaion Program on the Development of Early Language and Communicaion Skills in Deaf Children Aged 0-2 Years 1. Department of Psychology and Educaion of Excepional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Educaion, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Saeid Hassanzadeh 1 , *Fatemeh Nikkhoo 1 Objecive Early diagnosis and coherent rehabilitaion programs play a key role in improving recepive and expressive language and communicaional skills of deaf children. Communicaion with their parents could inluence the development of languages and communicaion skills in these children. It is impor - tant to ensure parental involvement in the rehabilitaion of deaf children as parent-therapists show the necessity for the provision of a comprehensive family-centered rehabilitaion program along with the diagnosis of hearing loss and audiological and eiological evaluaions. Materials & Methods This is an experimental study, with pre-test and post-test design. Sixty-two 0-2 years-old deaf children (30 girls and 32 boys), who either had undergone cochlear implant surgery or were candidates for cochlear implant surgery and had medical records at the Cochlear Implant Center in the Rasul Akram Hospital, were selected using purposive sampling. The subjects were then randomly divided into two groups (experimental and control groups). The subjects of the experimental group re- ceived the Navayesh parent-based comprehensive rehabilitaion program in 18 group and individual sessions (6 group sessions and 12 individual sessions). To invesigate early language and communicaion skills, the Ages and Stages Quesionnaires, third ediion, and the Communicaion and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Proile were used. In addiion, the Univariate and Mulivariate Analysis of Covari- ance (MANCOVA) was used for the analysis of data. Results The indings of this study demonstrated that post-test average scores in communicaion skills increased in the experimental group compared to the control group with respect to pre-test (43.33). In addiion, the MANCOVA results suggested that Navayesh comprehensive rehabilitaion program was efecive in increasing the scores in the areas of communicaion skills, expressive language, and symbolic behavior (P<0.001). Conclusion The results are indicaive of the efect of the Navayesh parent-based comprehensive rehabili- taion program on the development of early language and communicaion skills of deaf children. There- fore, it is recommended that this program should be used at rehabilitaion centers for deaf children, aiming at training parents as the primary therapists of deaf children. A B S T R A C T Keywords: Parent-based comprehensive rehabilitaion pro- gram, Communica- ion skills, Language skills, Deaf children Received: 2 Jul. 2016 Accepted: 5 Oct. 2016 Citation: Hasanzadeh S, Nikkhoo F. [Eficiency of Navayesh Parent-Based Comprehensive Rehabilitation Program on De- velopment of Early Language and Communication Skills of Deaf Children Aged 0-2 Years (Persian)]. Journal of Rehabilitation. 2016; 17(4):326-337. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.21859/jrehab-1704326 : http://dx.doi.org/ 10.21859/jrehab-1704326 Use your device to scan and read the aricle online