COCHLEAR IMPLANTS FOR ADULT PRELINGUALLY DEAF PATIENTS

Letting the deaf be deaf. Reconsidering the use of cochlear implants in prelingually deaf children.

In theory, cochlear implants hold out the possibility of enabling profoundly prelingually deaf children to hear. For these children's parents, who are usually hearing, this possibility is a great relief. Yet the decision to have this prosthetic device implanted ought not to be viewed as an easy or obvious one. Implant efficacy is modest and the burdens associated with them can be great. Moreove...

Performance of prelingually and postlingually deaf patients using single-channel or multichannel cochlear implants.

The auditory and aided lipreading performance of 8 prelingually and 11 postlingually deaf patients who had received a single-channel or multichannel cochlear implant was evaluated during 2 years of follow-up. Although all the patients improved on both closed-set pattern recognition and speech discrimination tests and on a Continuous Discourse Tracking task, the most significant improvement was ...

Performance of Prelingually and Postlingually Deaf Patients Using Single-Channel or Multichannel Cochlear Implants

The Use of Prosodic Cues in Sentence Processing by Prelingually Deaf Users of Cochlear Implants.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to assess the use of prosodic and contextual cues to focus by prelingually deaf adolescent users of cochlear implants (CIs) when identifying target phonemes. We predict that CI users will have slower reaction times to target phonemes compared with a group of normally-hearing (NH) peers. We also predict that reaction times will be faster when both prosodic...

Embodied Cognition in Prelingually Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Preliminary Findings