Children With Cochlear Implants

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

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...

SPELLING OF DEAF CHILDREN WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS 1 Spelling of Deaf Children Who Use Cochlear Implants

The spellings of 39 profoundly deaf users of cochlear implants, aged 6–12 years, were compared with those of 39 hearing peers. When controlled for age and reading ability, the error rates of the 2 groups were not significantly different. Both groups evinced phonological spelling strategies, performing better on words with more typical sound–spelling correspondences and often making misspellings...

Clinical Management of Children with Cochlear Implants.

Music recognition by children with cochlear implants

Poor pitch resolution interferes with cochlear implant users’ ability to recognize music from pitch cues alone. We examined the possibility that prelingually deaf implant users could identify familiar hit songs from commercial recordings presented with or without words. Young implant users 8–18 years of age and age-matched hearing controls attempted to identify original and altered recordings o...