title: Children's language development after cochlear implantation: a literature review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  review the literature for studies that describe the language development of children after they receive cochlear implants.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review on the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Science Direct databases, tracing the selection and critical analysis stages in the journals found and selected.
  
  
  METHODS
  We selected original articles looking at children with cochlear implants, which mentioned language development after surgery. Case studies, dissertations, books chapters, editorials, and original articles that did not mention aspects of oral communication development, perception of sounds and speech, and other stages of human development, in the title, abstract, or text, were excluded.
  
  
  METHODS
  A protocol was created for this study including the following points: author, year, location, sample, type of study, objectives, methods used, main results, and conclusion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  5,052 articles were found based on the search descriptors and free terms. Of this total, 3,414 were excluded due to the title, 1,245 due to the abstract, and 358 from reading the full text; we selected 35, of which 28 were repeated. In the end, seven articles were analyzed in this review.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We conclude that cochlear implant users have slower linguistic and educational development than their peers with normal hearing - though they are better than conventional prostheses users - and they are able to match them over time. There is great variability in the test methodologies, thus reducing the effectiveness and reliability of the results found.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Recife (PE), Brasil.
authors.forename: Clarice Gomes
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Monteiro
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Recife (PE), Brasil.
authors.forename: Ana Augusta de Andrade
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Cordeiro
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Recife (PE), Brasil.
authors.forename: Hilton Justino da
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Recife (PE), Brasil.
authors.forename: Bianca Arruda Manchester de
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Queiroga
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002663:Child Language; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome