Cochlear implants in children: speech production and auditory discrimination.
This article presents a statistical analysis of factors which may be predictive of improved speech and audiologic performance for implanted children. Such findings provide some prognostic indicators for identifying children who may have greater potential for success with the implant.
D001307:Auditory Perception; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement