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Author: Dettman, Shani × Author: Sarant, Julia × Start date: 1990 × Type: Conference Item × Subject: cochlear implant × Subject: otolarngology × Subject: otology ×

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    The development of auditory comprehension in children after receiving a cochlear multiple-channel implant
    Rance, G. ; Sarant, J.Z. ; Pyman, B. C. ; Barker, Elizabeth J. ; Clark, Graeme M. ; Dawson, P. W. ; Dettman, S. J. ; Hollow, R. ( 1992)
    Since late 1989, half the cochlear implant patients at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital have been young children. There is a gradual improvement of auditory comprehension in most cases using the criteria of environmental sound detection, as well as, prosody, high frequency phoneme and word discrimination. The rate of improvement and final result depend on the duration of deafness, presence of residual hearing, and quality of auditory-oral habilitation. Younger children usually progress more quickly than older children. Some adolescents who use Total Communication and who have no residual hearing, achieve assistance with lipreading. Children with Usher's Syndrome should be actively encouraged to participate in auditory-oral habilitation should they become totally deaf or blind.