Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Correlation between Auditory Spectral Resolution and Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Background: Variability in speech performance is a major concern for children with cochlear implants (CIs). Spectral resolution is an important acoustic component in speech perception. Considerable variability and limitations of spectral resolution in children with CIs may lead to individual differences in speech performance. The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between auditory ...

Emotional Perception of Music in Children with Unilateral Cochlear Implants

Introduction: Cochlear implantation (CI) improves language skills among children with hearing loss. However, children with CIs still fall short of fulfilling some other needs, including musical perception. This is often attributed to the biological, technological, and acoustic limitations of CIs. Emotions play a key role in the understanding and enjoyment of music. The present study aimed to in...

Speech Perception with Cochlear Implants

Variation in speech perception scores among children with cochlear implants.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify common factors affecting speech perception scores in children with cochlear implants. DESIGN Speech perception data for 167 implanted children were collected at two cochlear implant centres in Melbourne and Sydney. The data comprised audition-alone scores on open-set word and sentence tests. Children were selected on the basis that they ha...

Speech Perception in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants work reasonably well in many profoundly deaf adults and children. For a prelingually deaf child, the electrical stimulation transmitted by a cochlear implant represents the introduction of a new sensory modality that provides spectral and temporal information about speech and spoken language. Despite the success of cochlear implants in many deaf children, large individual diff...

Speech perception results in children with cochlear implants: contributing factors.

Speech perception test results were obtained from a group of 40 pediatric cochlear implant users. Half of the children participated in oral-only habilitation programs, which included both traditional oral and auditory-verbal approaches, and half participated in programs that used a combination of oral and manual communication referred to as total communication (TC). Analysis of the scores showe...