Cochlear Implantation in Adults with Prelingual Deafness. Part I. Clinical Results

Objectives/Hypothesis: To examine the hypothesis that the newer generations of cochlear implants could provide considerable speech understanding to late‐implanted, prelingually deaf adult patients.

[1]  A. Huarte,et al.  Cerebral auditory plasticity and cochlear implants. , 1999, International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology.

[2]  A. Snik,et al.  The relation between age at the time of cochlear implantation and long-term speech perception abilities in congenitally deaf subjects. , 1997, International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology.

[3]  S. Waltzman,et al.  Delayed Implantation in Congenitally Deaf Children and Adults , 2002, Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology.

[4]  A. Snik,et al.  Speech perception performance of children with a cochlear implant compared to that of children with conventional hearing aids. I. The "equivalent hearing loss" concept. , 1997, Acta oto-laryngologica.

[5]  G. Clark,et al.  Preliminary results for the cochlear corporation multielectrode intracochlear implant in six prelingually deaf patients. , 1987, The American journal of otology.

[6]  David B. Pisoni,et al.  Language Development in Profoundly Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants , 2000, Psychological science.

[7]  B J Gantz,et al.  Cochlear implant use by prelingually deafened children: the influences of age at implant and length of device use. , 1997, Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR.

[8]  S. Waltzman,et al.  Cochlear implantation in children younger than 2 years old. , 1998, The American journal of otology.

[9]  S. Waltzman,et al.  Implantation of Patients with Prelingual Long-Term Deafness , 1999, The Annals of otology, rhinology & laryngology. Supplement.

[10]  E. Fitzpatrick,et al.  Cochlear Implantation for Adolescents and Adults with Prelinguistic Deafness , 2002, Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology.

[11]  S. Waltzman,et al.  Use of a multichannel cochlear implant in the congenitally and prelingually deaf population , 1992, The Laryngoscope.

[12]  G. Clark,et al.  Cochlear Implants for Congenitally Deaf Adolescents: Is Open‐Set Speech Perception a Realistic Expectation? , 1994, Ear and hearing.

[13]  S. Waltzman,et al.  17 Speech Perception by Adults with Multichannel Cochlear Implants , 2006 .

[14]  M. J. Osberger,et al.  Speech recognition performance of older children with cochlear implants. , 1998, The American journal of otology.

[15]  C. Lykins,et al.  The comparative strength of laryngeal fracture fixation. , 1998, American journal of otolaryngology.