title: Telephone use by patients fitted with the Ineraid cochlear implant.
abstract: A survey of telephone use by 66 patients fitted with the Ineraid cochlear prosthesis revealed that 51% initiate telephone calls (most calls are to family or friends) and that 66% answer the telephone. Of the patients who answer the telephone, 49% indicated that they could identify the gender and/or age of the caller most of the time, 27% could identify a familiar caller most of the time, and 48% indicated that they could understand a conversation most of the time if speaking to a familiar speaker about a familiar topic. Understanding dropped rapidly as the speaker and topic became unfamiliar.
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University, Tempe.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Dorman
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dove
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parkin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zacharchuk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dankowski
mesh_terms: D003054:Cochlear Implants; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013689:Telephone / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*