Bilateral cochlear implants should be the standard for children with bilateral sensorineural deafness

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-74

  Papsin, Blake C ^a,b   Gordon, Karen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory deprivation hearing loss; Binaural processing; Sequential bilateral cochlear implantation; Simultaneous; Sound localization; Speech perception in noise

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 38149086165     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e3282f5e97c     Document Type: Review

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