title: [Development of hearing, speech and language in congenitally deaf infants and children after cochlear implantation].
abstract: In Japan, universal newborn hearing screening has been partly introduced since 2000 in order to discover neonates with congenital deafness, and the average age at discovery was around five months; however, among infants who were not examined by the universal newborn hearing screening, the average age at discovery was around two years. After fitting hearing aids, congenitally deaf infants are educated in a preschool for speech and hearing. If hearing aids are not effective to develop hearing and speech, cochlear implant surgery is performed as modern technology. The outcome of hearing, speech and language after cochlear implantation was excellent. At the age of elementary school enrollment, most of their verbal IQ was considered to be the same as age-matched normal children. Cochlear implant is the most important treatment at present.
authors: Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
authors: Kimitaka
authors: K
authors: Kaga
authors: Yukiko
authors: Y
authors: Shinjo
authors: Tatsuya
authors: T
authors: Yamasoba
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Ito
authors: Yuske
authors: Y
authors: Akamatsu
authors: Tsutomu
authors: T
authors: Uchiyama
authors: Hiroko
authors: H
authors: Tokumitsu
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003638:Deafness / Q000151:congenital*; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007804:Language Development; D015997:Neonatal Screening; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome