Speech development after cochlear implantation and cytomegalovirus infection

In addition to sensorineural hearing loss, newborns with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection are at increased risk for additional disabilities of varying severity. This analysis concerns language acquisition after cochlear implantation (CI) and CMV. The retrospective evaluation includes 32 children CI, diagnosed CMV their results (n=15) in the German Language Acquisition Test Four- Five Year Old Children (SETK 4-5) subtests, Sentence Comprehension (SV), Morphological Rule Formation (MR) Memory (SG) most recently measured speech perceptive performance (n=21) Freiburg Speech Intelligibility HSM 10 dB SNR. Some could not be tested SETK 4-5, because family is (n=4), due severe cognitive impairment (n=9) or did cooperate (n=4).