title: Chinese tonal language rehabilitation following cochlear implantation in children.
abstract: Cantonese language rehabilitation in 28 prelingually deaf children who underwent cochlear implantation was evaluated. All patients were implanted with multichannel devices and the operations went smoothly. They all had improved scores on audiological assessments and speech perception tests. The speech evaluation tests included the recognition of sounds, vowels, consonants and tone. Sentence recognition and story comprehension were both improved after training for 2 years. Cochlear implantation is a useful measure for the speech rehabilitation of prelingually profound deaf children when hearing aids are of no benefit. The multichannel implant device is of clinical significance in the rehabilitation of those patients using tonal language.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong Medical Centre, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: W I
authors.initials: WI
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hui
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Au
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tsang
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kung
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests