Cochlear implants work well in many profoundly deaf adults and children. However, despite the success of cochlear implants in many deaf children, large individual differences have been reported on a wide range of speech and language outcome measures. This finding is observed in all research centers around the world. Some children do extremely well with their cochlear implant while others derive...

Since usage of Multichannel-Cochlear Implants (=CI) a lot research-efforts has been put into to improve technology implants. Various reasons can result reimplantation. In this case old models will be exchanged latest generation The question arises whether newest give more benefit for users.

This article presents a focused review of language, speech, and comprehension outcomes in children with cochlear implants. Language acquisition with early-age implants and later-age implants are discussed, along with literacy and comprehension skills. A wide range of language outcomes is possible for children with cochlear implants, but many can achieve listening and spoken language skills at t...

OBJECTIVE To explore the anomalies of the temporal bone found on radiologic examination, technical challenges in cochlear implantation, and audiologic benefit derived from cochlear implantation in a series of children with CHARGE association. DESIGN Case series report. SETTING Tertiary referral children's hospital pediatric cochlear implant program. PATIENTS Six children with CHARGE assoc...

“Universal Newborn Hearing Screening” law will result in many more infants identified with hearing loss. Thus, many more infants will receive interventions such as cochlear implants at a very young age. In order to evaluate the benefits of receiving cochlear implants during infancy, speech perception and language skills of infants who receive cochlear implants must be assessed. However, most cu...

OBJECTIVES To measure acoustic voice outcomes in children with bilateral cochlear implants and to compare these with established norms, as well as to determine whether these acoustic measures were influenced by duration of cochlear implant use, age at implantation, and overall "time in sound." DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Pediatric tertiary care cochlear implant center. PATIENTS ...

OBJECTIVE To examine changing parent and deaf community perspectives related to pediatric cochlear implantation. DESIGN This research is based primarily on 2 nonrandom study designs. In the first study, conducted by the Gallaudet University Research Institute, Washington, DC, in the spring of 1999, a 12-page questionnaire was distributed to 1841 parents of children with cochlear implants; 439...

OBJECTIVE To examine the time course of maturation of P1 latencies in infant sequential and simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant recipients. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Pediatric collaborative cochlear implant program. PATIENTS Four children who received bilateral cochlear implants prior to age 2 years. INTERVENTION Cortical auditory evoked potential was completed to de...