The purpose of this study is to evaluate the social skills, academic competence and problem behaviors of children with coclear implants

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the social skills, academic competence and problem behaviors of children with cochlear implants. 52 hearing aid users were included in the study; participated under the name of the study group group and 150 people from the healthy classmates of the study group children were selected and participated under the name of the control group. A total of 202 people participated in the study. The participants consisted of cochlear implant users who were first, second and third year primary school students. Social Skills Rating System (SBDS) was used for each child participating in the study. The SBDS consists of subscales that assess social skills, academic competence, and problem behaviors. These scales were applied to children by teachers (Sucuoğlu B, Özokçu O; 2005).The TIFALDI scale is a tool used to assess receptive expressive language skills, and TIFALDI was administered to children using cochlear implants. It was stated that the differences in the scores of the Social Skills and Problem Behaviors subscales, in which there were significant differences, were in favor of the control group. This indicates that the children in the study group exhibited lower social skills and more problem behaviors compared to the children in the control group. The study group was divided into two according to age. The first one is called before two years of age, that is, the early period, and the second is called after two years of age, that is, the late period. As a result of the triple statistical comparisons made in this way, it was seen that the group with the device in the late period got lower scores than the control group. In other words, it was determined that there were more significant differences between the children who had the device in the late period and the control group. In correlation analysis; It has been concluded that the level of academic success tends to increase as receptive language skills develop in individuals using cochlear implants, and the development of expressive language skills contributes to both successful social interactions and better performance in the academic field. Significant correlations were also found between SBDS subscales.