Speech reception in deaf adults using vibrotactile aids or coehlear implants

Performance of deaf children with cochlear implants and vibrotactile aids.

A longitudinal study is under way to examine the speech perception and production skills of deaf children who use a single- or multi-channel cochlear implant, or a two-channel tactile aid. The speech perception data showed that the majority of subjects who achieved the highest scores on a range of measures used the multi-channel cochlear implant. The production data showed that all three types ...

Speech discrimination and intelligibility: outcome of deaf children fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants.

We retrospectively studied outcome of a sample of 36 congenitally deaf children who were fitted with either a conventional hearing aid (HA, N = 14) or a cochlear implant (CI, N = 22), and who received many years of audio-phonatory training by our multi-disciplinary team. In order to rate speech discrimination perception, we developed a new metric of speech discrimination performance based on se...

The use of vibrotactile aids with profoundly deaf children

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...

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...