The benefits of sequential bilateral cochlear implantation for hearing-impaired children

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-176

  Steffens, Thomas ^a   Lesinski Schiedat, Anke ^b   Strutz, Jürgen ^a   Aschendorff, Antje ^c   Klenzner, Thomas ^c   Rühl, Stephanie ^b   Voss, Bettina ^a   Wesarg, Thomas ^c   Laszig, Roland ^c   Lenarz, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral implantation; Binaural advantage; Lateralization; Speech perception in noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; GERMANY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOISE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 38349056788     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480701411528     Document Type: Article

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