title: Implantation of patients with prelingual long-term deafness.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide performance data on long-term congenitally and prelingually deafened children and adults who are implanted with the CLARION Multi-Strategy Cochlear Implant and who use the Continuous Interleaved Sampler (CIS) speech processing strategy. Open-set speech perception was assessed preoperatively and postoperatively with word and sentence recognition tests. Results indicate that a majority of subjects showed improvement from preoperative performance to the last available postoperative evaluation. These results represent a change from previously reported data on a similar population who used earlier speech processing strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016, USA.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Waltzman
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003638:Deafness / Q000151:congenital / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology