and "bye bye." "it was our ultimate goal for opal to hear all the speech sounds," said her father, james sandy. "it’s already making a difference to our day-to-day lives, like at bath-time or swimming, when opal can’t wear her cochlear implant. we feel so proud to have ...
this loss results in auditory perceptual problems such as difficulty understanding speech in noise, reduced localization ability, poor understanding of the person talking on the side of the deaf ear, loss of binaural summation, and reduced spatial balance. in children, these difficulties have been ...
byCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Universal screening of newborns for hearing loss before they leave the hospital is not enough to improve language skills of children who are deaf and hard of hearing, according to a new study. Research scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medic...
A study about cochlear implants reports, "There seems to be a substantial benefit for both speech and vocabulary outcomes when children receive their implant before the age of 2.5 years."32 A white paper addressing the societal costs of hearing loss concludes that "early identification of deafness...
3Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA; 4Kawsar's Human Genetic Research Center, Tehran, Iran and 5Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Te...
Arielle SpellunDivision of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA;Elodie M. BetancesDivision of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH;Susan Wiley...