title: AHL, SSD and bimodal CI results in children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article aims to demonstrate that children with asymmetric hearing loss (AHL), specifically those with single side deafness (SSD condition) and pure SSD, with substantial hearing (>70% normal speech discrimination) in the ear with hearing aid (HA), obtain clinically relevant speech perception benefit after cochlear implantation in the contralateral side.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Retrospective study of two groups: (1) 36 AHL children with bimodal hearing and (2) SSD children with SSD. They had follow-ups of 24 and 12 months duration, respectively. The AHL children where implanted on one ear and depending on the contralateral ear condition, they were divided into two groups: children who reach a disyllabic speech test score lower than 50% in quiet at 65dB-SPL without lip reading (27) and children with test score higher than 70% (9). The second group consisted on 2 children implanted to obtain SSD condition, as preliminary data, with 1 year of follow-up. They showed benefits of binaural stimulation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Children in a bimodal situation, with substantial hearing (>70% speech discrimination) in the ear with HA, obtain clinically relevant speech perception benefit after cochlear implantation in the contralateral side.
authors.affiliation: Hearing Loss Unit, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil, Av. Marítima del Sur s/n, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria 35016, Spain. Electronic address: aramos.gcc@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Á
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Ramos Macías
authors.affiliation: Hearing Loss Unit, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil, Av. Marítima del Sur s/n, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria 35016, Spain.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Borkoski-Barreiro
authors.affiliation: Hearing Loss Unit, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil, Av. Marítima del Sur s/n, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria 35016, Spain.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Falcón González
authors.affiliation: Hearing Loss Unit, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil, Av. Marítima del Sur s/n, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria 35016, Spain.
authors.forename: Á
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Ramos de Miguel
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D046088:Hearing Loss, Unilateral / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013067:Speech Perception
keywords: AHL; Bimodal; CI; Results in children; SSD