Evaluation of a tactile aid and a cochlear implant in one child.
The speech perception and production skills have been examined in a young deaf child who used a tactile aid for 2.5 years and subsequently received a multichannel cochlear implant. Although the differences were small, there was a trend of higher performance on nearly all speech perception measures following implantation than was observed after 2.5 years of tactile-aid use. Negligible changes occurred in her speech while wearing the tactile aid but substantial improvements appeared after she had used the multichannel implant for only 6 months.
Hesketh
L J
LJ
Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706.
Fryauf-Bertschy
H
H
Osberger
M J
MJ
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D013060:Speech; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement