OBJECTIVE: The emergence of cochlear implant technology has raised hopes about
improved outcomes for children with severe and profound hearing impairments. This study …

Children's Speech Sound Disorders Concise, easy-to-understand overview of current
practice in articulation disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental dysarthria …

Speechreading is an important form of communicative activity that improves social
adaptation in deaf adults. Cochlear implantation allows interaction between the visual …

Objectives: To assess a group of consecutively implanted children over 10 years after
implantation with regard to implant device use and function, speech perception, and speech …

The Europäische Akademie is concerned with the study of the consequences of scientific
and technological advance both for the individual and for society at large as well as for the …

This study evaluated the benefits of cochlear implant (CI) with regard to emotion perception
of participants differing in their age of implantation, in comparison to hearing aid users and …

Objective: To determine whether early-implanted, long-term cochlear implant (CI) users
display delays in verbal short-term and working memory capacity when processes related to …

Cochlear implants are neuroprostheses designed to restore speech perception in case of
profound bilateral hearing loss. As speech is fundamentally an audiovisual percept, a deficit …

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of intraoperative
application of steroid suspension and coating of the electrode contacts with a thin film of …

Objectives: We assessed if spatial hearing training improves sound localization in bilateral
cochlear implant (BCI) users and whether its benefits can generalize to untrained sound …