title: Study of the performance of four prelinguistically or perilinguistically deaf patients with a multi-electrode, intracochlear implant.
abstract: Individuals who are born deaf or become deaf in early childhood and are implanted as adults (or in late adolescence) with a multi-electrode, intracochlear implant often cannot understand speech by audition alone. Test results of four implanted patients were analyzed to determine 1. if there was a difference in performance between patients; 2. if there was a relation between performance and history of auditory stimulation; and 3. which tests revealed performance differences. On audition-only and audition-plus-vision tests, overall performance was rank-ordered from lowest to highest for patients 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Patient 4 recognized a few words audition-only. Patients 1 and 2 had long periods of no auditory stimulation; patients 3 and 4 had long periods of auditory stimulation with hearing aids prior to implantation. Tests not revealing differences in performance were identified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Skinner
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Binzer
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Fears
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Holden
authors.forename: V W
authors.initials: VW
authors.lastname: Jenison
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Nettles
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged