I distinguish and assess three separate arguments utilized by the opponents of cochlear implants: that treating deafness as a medical condition is inappropriate since it is not a disability; that so treating it sends a message to the Deaf that they are of lesser worth; and that the use of such implants would signal the end of Deaf culture. I give some qualified support to the first and second c...

Balance impairments affect a large population of individuals especially the elderly, in addition to those with vestibular deficits, CNS disorders, peripheral lower-leg neuropathies, and stroke. When vestibular or proprioceptive function is deficient, essential tasks such as postural control and gaze stabilization are not performed normally. Furthermore, the quality of life of patients is signif...

Amplitude envelope co-varies with F0 in Mandarin lexical tones. It can cue lexical tone perception in a tone language such as Mandarin which uses different pitch contours for phonemic contrasts. The current study investigated whether amplitude envelope could also aid the perception of lexical tones in a language such as Cantonese which uses both pitch contour and relative pitch height for phone...

The cochlear implant (CI) represents, for almost 25 years now, the gold standard in the treatment of children born deaf and for postlingually deafened adults. These devices thus constitute the greatest success story in the field of 'neurobionic' prostheses. Their (now routine) fitting in adults, and especially in young children and even babies, places exacting demands on these implants, particu...

Four countries, France, the USA, Austria and Australia – in hat chronological order – played key roles in the development f multi-electrode cochlear implants (http://recorlsa.online.fr/ mplantcochleaire/historique.html). In 2010, I sketched out, in hese pages, the story played out all over the world [1], which had een my own for 40 years. For almost half a century, following Djourno and Eyriès,...

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...

a cochlear implant is an implanted electronic device used to provide a sensation of hearing to a person who is hard of hearing. the cochlear implant is often referred to as a bionic ear. this paper presents an undecimated wavelet‑based speech coding strategy for cochlear implants, which gives a novel speech processor. the undecimated wavelet packet transform (uwpt) is computed like the wavelet ...

Abstract Introduction Cochlear implants (CIs) utilising eluting electrodes are a relatively new phenomenon. CI surgery can lead to variety of complications, namely electrode insertion trauma. This affects function leading loss residual hearing. To minimise this, anti-inflammatory or growth-promoting agents be used protect and enhance hearing through the sustained release an agent. Eluting inclu...

This chapter describes the development of two implantable prosthetic neurostimulators which, in the last 20 years, have revolutionised the management of severe-to-profound sensorineural deafness. We have witnessed their rapid evolution from the realms of esoteric laboratory abstraction, with many critics and little perceived clinical use, to a routine treatment which is safe, effective and, ind...

OBJECTIVE Verbal communicative competence is the main objective after early cochlear implantation in deaf children. However, there are currently no validated instruments to assess a child's real-world communicative abilities. We adopted a rigorous methodological approach to systematically develop the Functioning after Pediatric Cochlear Implantation instrument (FAPCI), a family-centered communi...