An exploratory look at pediatric cochlear implantation: Is earliest always best?

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 492-511

  Holt, Rachael Frush ^a   Svirsky, Mario A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; IMPLANTATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DEAFNESS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 54049113064     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31816c409f     Document Type: Article

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