Cochlear implants are a medical prosthesis used to treat sensorineural deafness, and one of the greatest advances in modern medicine. The following article is an overview of cochlear implant technology. The history of cochlear implantation and the development of modern implant technology will be discussed, as well as current surgical techniques. Research regarding expansion of candidacy, hearin...

the aim of this study was to compare the static and dynamic balance performance of deaf children with and without cochlear implants. this is a cross-sectional study of 145 school children, aged between 7 and 12 years comprising 85 children with congenital or early acquired bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss (the hearing loss group) and 60 normal hearing aged-matched control counterpa...

objective: the aim of the present research was to compare the auditory perception and verbal intelligibility in children with cochlear implant, hearing aids and normal hearing. methods: 60 children aged 5-7 years were divided to three groups and each group contained 20 children. the first and second groups were selected ordinarily from children with cochlear implant and hearing aids by convenie...

Since 1991,90 cochlear implantations have been performed in the " cochlear center" of our department, including 57 children. This paper presents the results of 57 children who underwent cochlear implantation in the Iranian pediatric cochlear implant program. The surgical technique is described below. No flap problems were encountered, and no cholesteatoma or other complication was seen. In...

Cochlear implantation has been an approved surgical intervention for children (2-18 years) with profound deafness for nearly 10 years. The last decade has brought technological advances in cochlear implant designs with concomitant improvements in patient performance and subsequent broadening of cochlear implant candidacy. Although average performance levels clearly establish the efficacy of ped...

background and aim: this article carries out a literature review of the quality and limitations of the narrative-based language intervention (nbli) for preschool and school-age hearing aided and cochlear implanted children. recent findings: the authors conducted a comprehensive search of electronic databases such as web of science, scopus, pubmed, google scholar, cochrane, and proquest from 198...

introduction: cochlear implantation can facilitate the development of communication skills in children with profound hearing loss. the objectives of our study were to determine the average ages at suspicion and diagnosis of hearing loss, amplification, intervention, and performing the cochlear implantation and to investigate the effects of the parents’ level of education and economic circumstan...

Suppression of tinnitus by electrical stimulation via a cochlear implant has been studied in recent years. Some individuals who undergo cochlear implant surgery report total or partial relief of the symptoms even in the contralateral ear. The mechanisms involved in this suppression are not clear. The results obtained in our study demonstrated an improvement of 71% in 29 implant cases, confirmin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate sound localization acuity in a group of children who received bilateral (BI) cochlear implants in sequential procedures and to determine the extent to which BI auditory experience affects sound localization acuity. In addition, to investigate the extent to which a hearing aid in the nonimplanted ear can also provide benefits on this task. DESIGN Two groups of children pa...