title: Interactive computer system for tuning the cochlear 22-channel implant in young children.
abstract: A computer system has been developed that has a games computer and a vibrotactile device linked into the Cochlear Diagnostic and Programming System. It uses a child's response to a computer game as a way of eliciting initial electrical thresholds and of maintaining attention, so that a large number of thresholds may be measured in a single session. Results have given times of 15 and 35 minutes for initial programming of all 22 electrodes in two 4-year-olds, and the system has been found to be useful in children from 3 years to early teens.
authors.affiliation: North Riding Infirmary, Middlesbrough, England.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Sandford
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003199:Computer Systems; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012984:Software