Speech perception performance of congenitally deaf patients with a cochlear implant: the effect of age at implantation.
The relation between age at cochlear implantation and long-term open-set speech recognition was studied in a group of nine congenitally deaf children. The age at cochlear implant surgery ranged from 4 to 13 years. The results showed that there was a tendency toward poorer results in the children implanted at a relatively older age. However, the results also indicated that an upper limit for age at implantation cannot yet be defined in these children.
Snik
A F
AF
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Vermeulen
A M
AM
Geelen
C P
CP
Brokx
J P
JP
van der Broek
P
P
D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003638:Deafness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013067:Speech Perception; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test