Developing a functional assessment tool for the auditory performance of Arabic-speaking Egyptian hearing impaired children.

Background: Auditory performance outcome of children with hearing impairment has been widely studied, and the related factors of the performance have been explored among different age groups for English speaking hearing impaired children.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to construct Arabic questionnaires for the evaluation of the auditory abilities of hearing impaired Egyptian Arabic-speaking children.

Methods: Three Arabic questionnaires targeting the auditory abilities were constructed by selecting items from different English-based questionnaires and translating them into Arabic and adapted to Egyptian culture.