title: Speech recognition at 1-year follow-up in the childhood development after cochlear implantation study: Methods and preliminary findings.
abstract: The Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation (CDaCI) study is a longitudinal multicenter investigation designed to identify factors influencing spoken language in young deaf children with cochlear implants. Normal-hearing peers serve as controls. As part of a comprehensive evaluation battery, a speech recognition hierarchy was designed to assess how well these children recognize speech stimuli across developmental stages. Data were analyzed for the earliest measures in 42 pairs of children reaching 1 year of follow-up. A number of children in the cochlear implant group who met criteria for testing approached levels of performance similar to the normal-hearing controls, and some could identify sentences in competition. These results demonstrate the responsiveness of the speech recognition hierarchy in tracking emergent skills from a sample of the CDaCI cohort.
authors.affiliation: House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA. leisenberg@hei.org
authors.forename: Laurie S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
authors.forename: Karen C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Amy S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: Carol G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Cokely
authors.forename: Emily A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Tobey
authors.forename: Alexandra L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Quittner
authors.forename: Nancy E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Fink
authors.forename: Nae-Yuh
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: John K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Niparko
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*