For many families of young children who are deaf, a cochlear implant may be the most viable option for promoting spoken language development. Children may qualify for a cochlear implant as young as 12 months if they have demonstrated minimal benefit from conventional amplification. In order for oral language to occur, however, parents need to be fully involved in their children’s early-interven...

HYPOTHESIS Processes of scattering and attenuation were investigated to determine the consequence on dose distributions by having a cochlear implant in the field of therapeutic radiation. BACKGROUND Radiation oncology medical accelerator beams of 6- and 18-MV x-ray energy were used. Five cochlear implants were investigated. METHODS Each implant model was individually studied using computer ...

This study examined whether the phonetic perceptual phenomena associated with categorical perception in normal-hearing listeners (i.e., sharp identification functions, poor within-category sensitivity, high between-category sensitivity) are predictive of individual differences in speech recognition performance among cochlear implant patients. Adult postlingually deafened cochlear implant users,...

Psychosocial factors, including socioemotional well-being, peer relationships, and social inclusion with hearing and deaf peers, are increasingly becoming a focus of research investigating children with cochlear implants. The study reported here extends the largely quantitative findings of previous research through a qualitative analysis of interviews with parents, teachers, and pediatric cochl...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To compare complication rates between patients whose cochlear implants were secured by a bony tie-down technique versus those secured by a periosteal tie-down technique. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review of 302 consecutive patients undergoing cochlear implantation (327 implants), including both adults and children, at a single institution by a single surgeon. METHODS...

PURPOSE To perform a systematic analysis of the research regarding vocal characteristics of hearing impaired children or adults with cochlear implants. RESEARCH STRATEGY A literature search was conducted in the databases Web of Science, Bireme, and Universidade de São Paulo's and CAPES' thesis and dissertations databases using the keywords voice, voice quality, and cochlear implantation, and ...

The aims were to determine the benefit of bilateral cochlear implantation in a 20 years old patient implanted in Croatia on hearing and speech development. The male patient, after 10 years of deafness, got cochlear implants Med-EL Combi 40+ on both sides in one-stage surgery. The etiology of his deafness was posttraumatic meningitis. Auditory capacity and speech recognition tests were performed...

Cochlear implants are electronic devices that have enabled individuals with severe to profound hearing losses to regain some hearing. Nearly all of those who receive cochlear implants (CIs) regain the sensation of sound. There is, however, substantial variability in speech perception performance among users of cochlear implants (Staller et al., 1997). One factor that may contribute to the indiv...

Using Channel-Specific Models to Detect and Mitigate Reverberation in Cochlear Implants

This study investigated effects of profound hearing loss on mother-infant interactions before and after cochlear implantation with a focus on maternal synchrony, complexity, and directiveness. Participants included two groups of mother-infant dyads: 9 dyads of mothers and infants with normal hearing; and 9 dyads of hearing mothers and infants with profound hearing loss. Dyads were observed at t...