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Objectives. To describe the Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) in prelingually deaf children with hearing aids and cochlear implants; to evaluate correlations between PCI, parental stress and family participation in the intervention programme, as well as between PCI and auditory and spoken language abilities.
Methods. 20 children (12 males, 8 females; mean age 21.8 ± 4.2 months) received a test battery including Categories of Auditory Performance (CAP), Social Conversational Skills Rating Scale for Assertiveness (SCS-A) and for Responsiveness (SCS-R), MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (M-BCDI). PCI was assessed by video analysis, while parental stress and family participation were assessed with the Parenting Stress Index Short Form questionnaire (PSI) and Familiar Involvement Rate Scale (FIRS), respectively.
Results. PCI style was “tutorial” in 15%, “modulated control” in 40%, “directive” in 20% and “asynchronous” in 25% of cases. A significant correlation was found between PCI and FIRS score, between PCI and CAP score, and between PCI and SCS-A rating scale score.
Conclusions. Assessment of PCI in deaf children is important because it relates to family participation in the intervention programme and affects the development of auditory and pragmatic abilities.

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Felicia Zagari - Complex Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Neuroscience, Sensory Organs and Chest, A. Gemelli Hospital Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8865-5471

Giorgia Mari - Complex Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Neuroscience, Sensory Organs and Chest, A. Gemelli Hospital Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy. Corresponding author - giorgia.mari@policlinicogemelli.it https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4396-7759

Tiziana Di Cesare - Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University Department of Head and Neck and Sensory Organs, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9756-1880

Pasqualina Maria Picciotti - Complex Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Neuroscience, Sensory Organs and Chest, A. Gemelli Hospital Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University Department of Head and Neck and Sensory Organs, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1502-6508

Ylenia Longobardi - Complex Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Neuroscience, Sensory Organs and Chest, A. Gemelli Hospital Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5065-2275

Daniela Rodolico - Complex Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Neuroscience, Sensory Organs and Chest, A. Gemelli Hospital Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3674-7455

Lucia D’Alatri - Complex Unit of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Neuroscience, Sensory Organs and Chest, A. Gemelli Hospital Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University Department of Head and Neck and Sensory Organs, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3104-958X

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Zagari, F., Mari, G., Di Cesare, T., Picciotti, P. M., Longobardi, Y., Rodolico, D., & D’Alatri, L. (2025). Parent-child interaction and early pragmatic, auditory and linguistic abilities in deaf children. ACTA Otorhinolaryngologica Italica, 45(5), 349–356. https://doi.org/10.14639/0392-100X-N3075
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