BACKGROUND Cochlear implant in children, speech perception and oral language, hearing and oral language performance in children with pre-lingual profound sensory-neural hearing impairment, users of cochlear implant. AIM To study the hearing and oral language performance of children with pre-lingual bilateral profound sensory neural hearing impairment, users of multi-channel cochlear implant c...

Title: The recognition of monosyllabic words by cochlear-implant patients and by normal-hearing subjects listening to words processed through cochlear implant signal processing strategies.

introduction: congenital anomalies of the cochlea and labyrinth can be associated with meningitis and varying degrees of hearing loss or deafness. despite antibiotics, meningitis remains a life threatening complication.   case report: we report a case of recurrent meningitis following episodes of otitis media in a cochlear implantee child with bilateral vestibulocochlear malformation, due to fi...

objectives: a large number of congenitally deaf children are born annually. if not treated, this will have destructive effects on their language and speech development, educational achievements and future occupation. in this study it has been tried to determine the level of language skills in children with cochlear implants (ci) in comparison with normal hearing (nh) age-mates. methods: test of...

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate speech perception and localization abilities in children who have received sequential cochlear implants, with the first implant received before age 4 and the second implant received before age 12. Results indicate performance in the bilateral cochlear implant condition is significantly better than listening with each implant alone for the outcom...

Studies have shown that unilateral cochlear implant users who have residual hearing in the contralateral ear can benefit from combining a hearing aid in the nonimplanted ear with their cochlear implant. The purpose of this study was to better understand the factors influencing decision making by adults. Adults who had discontinued hearing aid use shortly after cochlear implantation were selecte...

OBJECTIVE To quantify progress after cochlear implantation for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of speech and language and speech perception test scores of children with autism who have received a cochlear implant at our center. SETTING University of Michigan Medical Center, Cochlear Implant Program. PATIENTS Six children, ages 3 to 16 years,...