Paris – 12.Nov 2000 Assessment of the Outcomes Following Cochlear Implantation in Young Children

Since the first cochlear implants (CI) were fitted in children with congenital and acquired deafness at the ENT Department of the Medical University of Hannover, with follow-up rehabilitation at the Cochlear Implant Centre Hannover (CIC), we have gained over ten years of experience in this field. Today the operation is a standard procedure. To date CI surgery has been performed in Hannover on some 2000 people, around 950 of them children. The Wilhelm Hirte CIC currently (as of 18.08.2000) has 645 children in its charge, aged between seven months and 16 years; since 1994, however, the majority of children aged five and upwards have undergone rehabilitation at a different centre.