Cochlear Implants: The Young People's Perspective
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Cochlear implants: the young people's perspective.
Cochlear implantation is a relatively new procedure, which has already had significant impact on the lives of many profoundly deaf children and adults, in providing useful hearing to those unable to benefit significantly from hearing aids. After 16 years of cochlear implantation in the United Kingdom, there is now a body of evidence covering a range of outcomes, much of which covers perceptual ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1081-4159,1465-7325
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enm018