Speech Perception Skills and Speech Production Intelligibility in French Children With Prelingual Deafness and Cochlear Implants

Long-term outcome on spoken word recognition ability of young children with cochlear implants

“…The improvement in performance was particularly marked when compared with one's pre-operative condition where hearing aids were used. The results obtained were consistent with those found in the English-speaking and Frenchspeaking children [2][3][4]. The benefit of cochlear implant seems be able to apply to children over a diversified language background including Cantonese.…”

“…Continuous improvement was noted even after 3 years of implant use [1,2]. Besides the effect of implant experience, children implanted at earlier ages were also found to have better speech perception performance [3,4].…”

Auditory neuropathy/auditory dyssynchrony in children with cochlear implants

“…Speech perception results were better the longer cochlear implants were used, even though there were no statistically significant differences in duration of cochlear implant use and open and closed set speech recognition. Other authors have also pointed out a gradual development of speech perception abilities following cochlear implants use for some time in different groups of children [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] . The mechanism by which OAE deteriorate or are lost in AN/AD patients remains unknown; no significant relationship between absence and/or possible loss of OAE and any specific changes in AN/AD were found.…”

Three-year follow-up of children with open-set speech recognition who use the MED-EL cochlear implant system

“…Allum et al (2000) reported that when young children begin to improve on auditory speech perception skills, they do so at a much quicker rate than older implanted children. Mondain et al (1997) and Gstöttner et al (2000) report the development of open-set reception after 12 months of cochlear implant use. This is the case in our study as well, except for open-set phoneme understanding, where there is significant phoneme recognition by 6 months post-implantation.…”

“…Mondain et al (1997) developed a two-list test with ten words in each list, where the child is briefly shown an activity picture and then repeats a sentence about the picture. Results were seen only after 12 months of cochlear implant use, and they did not report on the use of the test in younger children.…”