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    Habilitation issues in the management of children using the cochlear multiple-channel cochlear prosthesis
    Galvin Karyn L. ; Dawson Pam W. ; Hollow Rod. ; Dowell Richard C. ; Pyman B. ; Clark Graeme, M. ; Cowan, Robert S. C. ; Barker, Elizabeth J. ; Dettman, Shani J. ; Blamey, Peter J. ; RANCE, GARY ; Zarant, Julia Z. ( 1993)
    Since 1985, a significant proportion of patients seen In the Melbourne cochlear Implant clinic have been children. The children represent a diverse population, with both congenital and acquired hearing-impairment, a wide-range or hearing levels pre-Implant, and an age range from 2 years to 18 years. The habilitation programme developed for the overall group must be flexible enough to be tailored to the Individual needs of each child, and to adapt to the changing needs or children as they progress. Long-term data shows that children are continuing to show Improvements after 5-7 years of device use, particularly In their perception of open-set words and sentences. Habilitation programs must therefore be geared to the long-term needs of children and their families. Both speech perception and speech production need to be addressed In the specific content of the habilitation program for any Individual child. In addition, for young children, the benefits or Improved speech perception should have an Impact on development of speech and language, and the focus of the programme for this age child will reflect this difference In emphasis. Specific materials and approaches will vary for very young children, school-age and teenage children. In addition, educational selling will have a bearing on the Integration of listening and device use Into the classroom environment.
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    Speech processing strategies in an electrotactile aid for hearing-impaired adults and children
    Cowan, Robert S. C. ; Blamey, Peter J. ; Sarant, Julia Z. ; Galvin, Karyn L. ; Clark, Graeme M. (Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 1990)
    An electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker) for hearing-impaired children and adults has been developed and tested. Estimates of second format frequency, fundamental frequency and speech amplitude are extracted from the speech input, electrically encoded and presented to the user through eight electrodes located over the digital nerve bundles on the fingers of the non-dominant hand. Clinical results with children and adults confirm that tactually-encoded speech features can be recognized, and combined with input from vision or residual audition to improve recognition of words in isolation or in sentences. Psychophysical testing suggests that alternative encoding strategies using multiple-electrode stimuli are feasible. Preliminary results comparing encoding of consonant voiced/voiceless contrasts with new encoding schemes are discussed.