Functional outcome of sequential bilateral cochlear implantation in young children: 36 months postoperative results

Parents’ views on the quality of life of their children 2–3 years after cochlear implantation

“…Scherf et al [44] already reported such a finding on 35 Belgian children. In the future, it is also necessary to study more closely what are the effects of different parts of care and habilitation in paediatric cochlear implantation.…”

Contrasting benefits from contralateral implants and hearing aids in cochlear implant users

“…2 summarizes outcomes from BiCI and bimodal studies using speech and noise both presented from the front (S 0 N 0 ). The BiCI data are from larger studies that included around 10 or more adult subjects (Gantz et al, 2002;Müller et al, 2002;Laszig et al, 2004;Schleich et al, 2004;Ramsden et al, 2005;Litovsky et al, 2006cLitovsky et al, , 2009Buss et al, 2008;Koch et al, 2009;Laske et al, 2009), and have been re-calculated (where needed and possible) relative to the better ear outcomes reported for each listener. Results for studies that used SRT measures are shown by black symbols (left axis), and those that used fixed SNR tests by red symbols (right axis).…”

“…While both monaural and bilateral CI performance generally improves over time following implantation, changes in binaural benefits remain unclear. Several studies have shown little or no change in binaural benefit over time courses ranging from six to 17 months (Laszig et al, 2004;Schleich et al, 2004;Ricketts et al, 2006). In contrast, Buss et al (2008) reported increasing squelch but not diotic benefits during the first year, and again increased squelch at four years (Eapen et al, 2009).…”

“…As in adults, significantly higher scores were reported for bilateral device use, particularly for the questions relating to the spatial hearing domain, although correlation with localization measures in some of those studies is moderate. Scherf et al (2009b) used the Würzburg questionnaire (Winkler et al, 2002) and found more sustained benefit for children who received the second implant before the age of six than those implanted later in the second ear. Those authors also noted that, in terms of auditory awareness and speech production, bilaterally implanted children achieved matched outcomes to unilateral CI users over shorter time periods.…”

Predictors of pediatric cochlear implantation outcomes in South Africa

“…Scherf at al. [70] also used the CAP as outcome measure in a group of 35 children with bilateral CIs, showing that after three years of bilateral implant use, higher CAP scores were obtained for significantly more children than before their second implant. Although the positive effect of bilateral implantation on spoken language development has recently been demonstrated [45,53], the influence of bilateral implantation on speech production remains to be demonstrated [48].…”