The age at which young deaf children receive cochlear implants and their vocabulary and speech-production growth: Is there an added value for early implantation?

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 628-644

  Connor, Carol McDonald ^a   Craig, Holly K ^b   Raudenbush, Stephen W ^b   Heavner, Krista ^b   Zwolan, Teresa A ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33750609530     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000240640.59205.42     Document Type: Article

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