title: [Professional occupation after cochlear implantation].
abstract: This study verifies whether cochlear implants helps deaf adults to maintain or develop their professional occupations. Sixty-seven patients received a questionnaire concerning their professional activities before and after implantation. At the time of implantation 34 were professionally active. After the implantation 29 remained active, 4 of them reporting positive developments in their careers. Five patients became inactive. The previously inactive patients remained inactive. There was no difference in auditory performances between professionally active or inactive patients. Cochlear implants enable most implanted adults to maintain and even progress in their professions. However, deafness still represents an obstacle to social integration as inactive patients who searched for a job were rejected after the job interviews.
authors.affiliation: Centre romand d'implants cochléaires, Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et chirurgie, cervico-faciale, HUG, Genève 14. Izabel.kos@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: Maria-Izabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Kós
authors.forename: Colette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Degive
authors.forename: Colette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boëx
authors.forename: Raphaël
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maire
authors.forename: Jean-Philippe
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Guyot
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014937:Work