Cochlear implant hearing performance at the University of Minnesota.
The hearing performance of six post-lingually deaf adults implanted with the Nucleus 22-channel device are presented. All patients achieved measurable open set speech recognition with implant alone. The best hearing performance was achieved with a combination of lipreading and cochlear implant. For this condition our group achieved an average open set speech discrimination score of 85% (CID sentences) and an average speech tracking rate of 70 words per minute. We attribute the success of our group to careful pre-operative selection, including attention to candidate motivation toward hearing rehabilitation.
Kimberley
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Department of Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
Lee
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Scheller
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Levine
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Adams
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Nelson
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D000328:Adult; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test; D014495:Universities