Deafness affects∼ 2 in 1000 children and is one of the most common congenital
impairments. Permanent hearing loss can be treated by fitting hearing aids. More severe to …

Spatial hearing skills are essential for children as they grow, learn and play. These skills
provide critical cues for determining the locations of sources in the environment, and enable …

Purpose The purpose of the present investigation is to differentiate children using cochlear
implants (CIs) who did or did not achieve age-appropriate language scores by …

Cochlear implants (CIs) give children with severe to profound hearing loss access to sound.
There appears to be a dose effect of sound exposure on speech perception abilities as …

Objectives: A postlingually implanted adult typically develops hearing with an intact auditory
system, followed by periods of deafness (or near deafness) and adaptation to the implant …

One of the biggest challenges that face cochlear implant (CI) users is the highly variable
hearing outcomes of implantation across patients. Since speech perception requires the …

Purpose The aims of this study were to compare speech recognition at different
postoperative times for both ears in bilaterally implanted patients and to assess the influence …

Cochlear implants (CIs) allow to restore the hearing function in profoundly deaf individuals.
Due to the degradation of the stimulus by CI signal processing, implanted individuals with …

Objective: To study the development of dichotic listening, ear advantage, and speech
perception in cochlear implant (CI) recipients using five audiometric tests. Study Design …

The aim of this descriptive-analytical study was to compare the categories of auditory
performance (CAP) and speech intelligibility rating (SIR) in people with cochlear implants …