[Speech understanding in post-lingual adults with cochlear implants].
It is well recognised that multi-channel cochlear implants are highly effective in gaining or regaining auditory perceptual skills of severe to profound hearing-impaired people. Research shows that adults rapidly improve in speech understanding after cochlear implantation. This study reports on speech understanding from two Spanish Clinics. 32 post-lingually deafened adults were fitted with either a MED-EL COMBI 40 or COMBI 40+ cochlear implant at the Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, at the Granada or Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia Clinic, Spain. Subjects were assessed at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months post-fitting on a number of speech perception tests. Results showed a highly significant improvement on all speech perception tests over the time. These ratify other studies in saying that cochlear implantation is a viable and successful treatment in post-lingually deafened adults.
Morera
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Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia. constantino.Morera@uv.es
Sainz
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Cavalle
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de la Torre
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception