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The cochlear implant (CI) is increasingly used to treat deafness, despite arguments from the deaf community. Deaf children born to hearing parents are the fastest growing group of CI recipients, making parents the primary consumers. Instead of focusing on the controversy over implants, this article...
Thirty-three young people with cochlear implants, aged between 9 and 16 years, were assessed for use of their implant system, cognitive abilities, vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. The group came from throughout England and included 26 born deaf, six deafened by meningitis, one with ...
COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS "DISAPPEAR" FROM THEIR OWN DEAF COMMUNITY No they don't! Most ci users, especially prelingually deaf adults, were implanted too late in life for their "WHAT" auditory system to be fully functional, even though their "WHERE" auditory system IS fully functional, which gr...
Here in Aus the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have approved the release of the N8 on August 24. Now it’s up to Cochlear Australia to get a supply of the N8 for recipients. I’m due for an upgrade, I’ve got 1/2 the paperwork needed. Just waiting for Cochlear Australia to...
Performance variability on perceptual discrimination tasks in profoundly deaf adults with cochlear implants Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate performance on two challenging listening tasks, talker and regional accent discrimination, and to ass... Hay-McCutcheon, Marcia J.Peterson, Nat...
Teens shrug, hands in the air, gesturing their thoughts on ‘no sound’. Frequently, in the next sentence, individuals say, “I like it; it feels good” – or –they say the complete opposite, “I need something in the background; I could never do that.” (There’s not much middle...
Cochlear implantDeaf childObjectives Hearing is one of our most important senses, and hearing ability has an enormous impact on a child's psychomotor development. Children with auditory perception disorders may show abnormal development in terms of speech, language, and communication skills, as well ...
They spake not a word;But, like dumb statues, or breathing stones,Gazed each on other. All sat mute,Pondering the danger with deep thoughts. Mute A deaf person who is unable to speak Mute A device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument Mute Deaden (a sound or noise), especia...
In a pilot study of a working memory training program in a sample of prelingually deaf, early implanted children and adolescents with cochlear implants, we found improvement after training on measures of working memory and sentence repetition. Results were less robust for measures of fluency/speed...