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...

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...

The number of children with hearing loss with additional disabilities receiving cochlear implantation has increased dramatically over the past decade. However, little is known about their auditory and speech and language development following implantation. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the effects of cochlear implantation on the most common genetic and developmental disorders in chi...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of an intraoperative perilymph fluid gusher during cochlear implantation on speech perception abilities in pediatric patients with labyrinthine anomalies. SETTING Tertiary care academic referral center. METHODS Seventy subjects with labyrinthine malformations who received a cochlear implant were identified in our pediatric cochlear implant database. In 30 cas...

The cochlear implant is an electronic auditory prosthesis with a component that is surgically inserted in the ear and coupled with a detachable component that is worn externally like a hearing aid. It is designed to stimulate the spiral ganglion cells in patients whose hair cells have been lost (1). An auditory brain stem implant is a similar device implanted in or on the brain stem, to stimula...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between prelinguistic communication behaviors and subsequent language development after cochlear implantation in deaf children. Evaluative tools with predictive validity for language potential in very young deaf children remain elusive. SETTING A tertiary care cochlear implant center and a preschool setting of spoken language immersion in which oral l...

Importance There is an ongoing global discussion on whether or not bilateral cochlear implantation should be standard care for bilateral deafness. Contrary to unilateral cochlear implantation, however, little is known about the effect of bilateral cochlear implantation on tinnitus. Objective To investigate tinnitus outcomes 1 year after bilateral cochlear implantation. Secondarily, to compare...