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Post-implant habilitation for children using cochlear implants: effects on long-term outcome
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dowell, Richard C. Dettman, Shani Williams, Sarah Tomov, Alexandra Hollow, Rod Clark, Graeme M. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | Most clinicians working in the cochlear implant field advocate a regular habilitation program for young children receiving implants. The development of auditory skills and the incorporation of these skills into language development are thought to be key areas for such programs. Studies of speech perception and language outco mes demonstrate that an educational approach that emphasises spoken language development appears to enhance the results for implanted children. It remains difficult, however, to demonstrate clearly the effect of habilitation objectively and to determine how much individual attention is desirable for each child. This pilot study considered the long term speech perception and language outcomes for two groups of children who received Nucleus cochlear implants in Melbourne. One group (n=17) was identified as recei ving regular habilitation from the Melbourne Cochlear Implant Cli nic over a four year post-operative period. Another group (n=l1) was identified as receiving very little regular habilitation over the post-operative period. The language and speech perception re sults for these two groups showed a significant difference in perfor mance on a wide range of measures with the group receiving regu lar formal habilitation demonstrating better performance on all measures. These groups included only congenitally, profoundly hearing-impaired children and did not differ significantly on mean age at implant or experience at the time of assessment. Further studies are needed to clarify these results on a larger group of chil dren, and to control for additional confounding variables. Nonet heless, these preliminary results provide support for the incorpora tion of regular long-term habilitation into cochlear implant pro gra ms for child ren . OTOPUBS #1555 SECfION & SUBSECfION |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/27092/118990_vol13_1555.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
