Our experience with cochlear implants: have we erred in our expectations?
Many clinicians feel that single-channel cochlear implants are limited in the information they can provide. This has led to some common misconceptions regarding single-channel and multichannel systems. At the House Ear Institute, a growing number of children with the 3M/House single-channel implant are demonstrating open-set understanding of speech on measures designed to test such abilities in children. As a result, we have revised our thinking regarding the potential of this device.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology