title: Assessment of telephone speech perception in individuals who received cochlear implant in the period 1993-2003.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate telephone speech perception in individuals who received cochlear implant in the period 1993-2003.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty seven CI users were divided into pre and post-lingual groups, being the speech perception assessed in two stages: first by a list of sentences imposed on speakerphone with the same mapping used to evaluate the phone and, in a second stage, using the landline, landline phone adapter with CI and cell phone.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the group of pre-lingual hearing loss, 75% of subjects were able to maintain a dialogue with the interlocutor and 19% did so with difficulty. In the post-lingual group, 89% were able to maintain the dialogue with the interlocutor and 11% did so with difficulty. Both groups of subjects pre and post-lingual use the phone as a media, and most have satisfactory performance without the need for aid or CI accessories.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  One of the benefits of the CI is to introduce the life of the hearing impaired phone use regardless of their technology and accessories, as well as with the phone adapter and cell phone. In this study, most individuals CI users showed satisfactory performance in the comprehension of sentence and questions by the telephone, with better performance, although discrete, for the group post-lingual. Thus, there is the importance of careful indication of the IC and auditory rehabilitation program that minimize the impact of deafness in the communication, especially via telephone, regardless of the time when the hearing was acquired. So, this fact improves the conditions for CI users to maintain their daily activities, following the dynamism of contemporary life.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Communication and Hearing, BauruSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Pricila Perini
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Rigotti
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, School of Dentistry of Bauru, BauruSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Orozimbo Alves
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, School of Dentistry of Bauru, BauruSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Cecília
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Bevilacqua
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital of Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies, Center for Research on Hearing, BauruSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Leandra Tabanez do
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Nascimento
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, School of Dentistry of Bauru, BauruSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Kátia de Freitas
authors.initials: Kde F
authors.lastname: Alvarenga
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000145:classification / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception; D013689:Telephone; D055815:Young Adult