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Author: Busby, Peter × Author: Clark, Graeme × End date: 1999 × Start date: 1990 × Type: Journal Article × Subject: cochlear implants × Subject: otology ×

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    A clinical report on speech production of cochlear implant users
    Dawson, P. W. ; Blamey, P. J. ; Dettman, S. J. ; Rowland, L. C. ; Barker, E. J. ; Tobey, E. A. ; Busby, P. A. ; Cowan, R. C. ( 1995)
    Objective: The aim was to assess articulation and speech intelligibility over time in a group of cochlear implant users implanted at 8 yr or over. The hypothesis was that the postoperative speech production performance would be greater than the preoperative performance. Design: A test of intelligibility using sentences and an articulation test measuring non-imitative elicited speech were administered to 11 and 10 subjects, respectively, who were implanted with the 22-electrode cochlear implant. Nine subjects received both tests. Age at implantation ranged from 8 yr to 20 yr and implant use ranged from 1 yr to 4 yr 5 mo. Results: For both the intelligibility and articulation tests roughly half of the subjects showed significant improvements over time and group mean postoperative performance significantly exceeded preoperative performance. Improvements occurred for front, middle, and back consonants; for stops, fricatives, and glides and for voiceless and voiced consonants. Conclusions: Despite being deprived of acoustic speech information for many childhood years, roughly half of the patients assessed showed significant gains in speech intelligibility and articulation postimplantation. The lack of a control group of non-implanted patients means that we cannot separate out the influence of the implant on speech production from other influences such as training and tactile-kinaesthetic feedback.
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    Electrode position, repetition rate, and speech perception by early-and-late-deafened cochlear implant patients
    Busby, P. A. ; Tong, Y. C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1993)
    Psychophysical and speech perception studies were conducted on eight patients using the 22electrode cochlear implant manufactured by Cochlear Pty. Ltd. Four early-deafened patients became deafened at 1-3 years of age and were implanted at 5-14 years of age. Four late-deafened (postlingual adult) patients became deafened at 38-47 years of age and were implanted at 42-68 years of age. Psychophysical studies measured the discrimination of trajectories with time-varying electrode positions and repetition rates. Speech perception studies measured performance using two speech coding strategies: a multi-electrode strategy which coded the first and second formant frequencies, the amplitudes of the two formants, and the fundamental frequency; and a single-electrode strategy which coded the amplitudes of the first and second formants, and the fundamental frequency. In general, the four late-deafened patients and one early-deafened patient were more successful than the other three early-deafened patients in the discrimination of electrode position trajectories and in speech perception using the multi-electrode strategy. Three of the four late-deafened patients were more successful than the early-deafened patients in the discrimination of repetition rate trajectories. Speech perception performance in the single-electrode strategy was closely related to performance in repetition rate discrimination. The improvement in speech perception performance from the single-electrode to multi-electrode strategy was consistent with successful performance in electrode discrimination.