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    Introduction: International Cochlear Implant, Speech and Hearing Symposium - Melbourne 1994
    Clark, Graeme M. ; Cowan, Robert S. C. ( 1995)
    The International Cochlear Implant Speech and Hearing Symposium - Melbourne 1994 covered a wide range of presentations in a number of disciplines. The scientific program included 287 oral presentations and 40 posters, presented to a total of 456 delegates from 38 countries. This was a considerable expansion in the number and range of presentations from the first international conference held in Melbourne in 1985 (Ann Otol Rhinal Laryngal 1987;96[suppl 128]). This growth highlights the importance of the discipline and the advances being made in this area.
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    Results for children and adolescents using the multichannel cochlear prosthesis [Abstract]
    Dowell, Richard C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Dettman, Shani J. ; Dawson, Pamela W. ( 1992)
    The first adolescent to use the 22-electrode cochlear prosthesis was Implanted In Melbourne in 1985 and the first child (less than 10 years), the following year. Since then, over 100 children have received the cochlear prosthesis in Australia and over 1200 worldwide. Detailed assessment of 200 children in the U.S.A., Australia and Germany lead to the market approval of the prosthesis by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in July 1990. The analysis of results for these children has proven to be difficult due to the use of different tests in different places, the lack of appropriate assessment tools for young children, the wide range of performance, and the problems of cooperation for young children. Despite these problems, some trends are beginning to emerge in the speech perception results for implanted children. Children with a greater amount of auditory experience before becoming profoundly deaf tend to perform better, as do children with more experience with the cochlear prosthesis. Those with a greater number of electrodes in use also perform better, a result supported by adult studies. Although older prelinguistically deafened children do not perform as well as postlinguistically deafened adults, there appears to be little difference between results for pre-and post-linguistically deafened young children. These trends In speech perception results will be discussed in more detail.