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ItemResults for Chinese and English in a multichannel cochlear implant patient( 1987)A multichannel cochlear prosthesis was implanted in a Chinese patient who suffered from profound sensory hearing loss. The preoperative Minimal Auditory Capabilities (MAC) battery tests in English, as well as an open set bisyllable word test, an open set sentence test, and speech tracking in Chinese indicated significant improvement of speech perception for both English and Chinese after the operation. Substantial understanding of running speech was possible in both languages without the help of lipreading.
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ItemEducational assessment and management of children with multichannel cochlear implants( 1987)This paper describes the assessment and training program to evaluate speech, language, and communication skills of profoundly deaf children during and after training. Two sensory aids/prostheses are used: hearing aids and the Nucleus multichannel cochlear implant. Using a single-subject time-series experimental design, children's speech, language, and communication skills are assessed. For speech skills, assessment includes formal tests of articulation and intelligibility, syllable stress and process analyses, analyses of suprasegmental features, and voice quality. For general communication abilities, conversational skills with different speakers, story production skills, comprehension and expression of procedural information, discourse skills, and a measure of conversational interaction skills (pragmatics) are analyzed at regular intervals. Regular observations also sample the subjects' mode and frequency of interactions with individuals and groups in the school and home setting. Normative tests and formal analyses of language samples are also used to assess the overall language age of the child, vocabulary size, and kinds of expressive and receptive, syntactic, and semantic ability.
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ItemPreliminary results for the Cochlear Corporation multielectrode intracochlear implant in six prelingually deaf patients( 1987)The preliminary results from this study indicate that some prelingually deaf patients may get worthwhile help from a multiple-electrode cochlear implant that uses a formant-based speech processing strategy. It is encouraging that these improvements can occur in young adults and teenagers. The results for two children are also encouraging. A 10-year-old child obtained significant improvement on some speech perception tests. It was easy to set thresholds and comfortable listening levels on a 5-year-old child, and he is now a regular user of the device. There are, however, considerable variations in performance among the prelingual patients, which may be related to the following factors: whether they have had some hearing after birth, the method of education used, the motivation of the patient, and age at implantation.
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ItemClinical results using a multiple-channel cochlear prosthesis( 1984)A total of eight profoundly deaf patients have been implanted with the Nucleus Limited multiple-channel cochlear prosthesis at the University of Melbourne since it became available in late 1982. All patients are everyday users of the device. Speech testing using the device alone has shown consistently high scores for a variety of closed set tests and significant levels of open set speech understanding in most of the patients. Lipreading assessment with phoneme, word, sentence and speech tracking material shows significant improvement when using the prosthesis for all patients tested. Other benefits reported are recognition of environmental sounds, decrease in tinnitus. increased confidence in social and vocational situations and improved voice control. One patient is able to cope with interactive conversations over the telephone and three others are able to use the telephone in a limited way without special codes.