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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Cochlear Implants"”.
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Bilateral cochlear implants : basic psychophysics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2000.
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Cochlear Implants, Surgical, Audiological and Electrophysiological Issues.
Contains fulltext : 59141.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Enhancing voice pitch perception in cochlear implants
Cochlear implants (CIs) are among the most successful sensory prostheses in the world, partially restoring hearing and, to many users, speech perception. However, they suffer in more complex tasks such as pitch perception. In particular, poor voice pitch perception affects CI users’ ability to …
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Wh-Question Processing in Children with Cochlear Implants
<p>Children with cochlear implants (CIs) have exhibited difficulty accurately answering and producing wh-questions. The syntactic construction of wh-questions include syntactic movement, whereby the wh-question phrase that replaces the subject or object noun is fronted to the beginning of the …
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Communication Choices, Identity, and Outcomes in Children with Cochlear Implants
… decisions. For most parents of children with cochlear implants (CIs), access to oral communication and the ‘hearing’ world, is a priority. Disagreement between professionals around using a visual language make it difficult for parents to decide between an ‘oral-only’ or ‘bilingual/bimodal’ …
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Sound localization and interaural time sensitivity with bilateral cochlear implants
Bilateral cochlear implantation is becoming more common as clinicians attempt to provide better sound-source localization and speech reception in noise for cochlear implant (CI) users. While some improvement over the abilities of monolateral implantees has been documented, bilateral performance for …
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Literacy Development in School-Aged Children With Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implants
… born deaf and received simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants at the age of 2 years old or younger. All participants lived in Ontario, Canada, and were identified with a hearing loss through UNHS or an Audiologist between birth and 21 months of age. Eight students, 2 females and 6 males, …
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An investigation into the expectations of mothers of children with cochlear implants
… of parents whose children have received a cochlear implant. The process of implantation is fraught with expectations, and in order to ensure continued parental interest and motivation, it is important to have insight into and understanding of these expectations, as well as the factors which …
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Identification of Effective Strategies to Promote Language in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
… representative sample of deaf children receiving cochlear implants. The purpose of this study was to identify the facilitative language techniques that are most effective in facilitating receptive and expressive language development in young deaf children. Ninety-three deaf children, ages 2 years …
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Audiovisual Integration During Novel Word Learning Among School-Aged Children with Cochlear Implants
… speak boosts speech perception for children with cochlear implants (CIs). Thus, children with CIs are often instructed to orient themselves toward the person they are listening to, to gain access to visual speech cues. Children with CIs who are better “audiovisual integrators,” or those who …
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Current steering and electrode spanning with partial tripolar stimulation mode in cochlear implants
<p>Cochlear implants (CIs) partially restore hearing sensation to profoundly deaf people by electrically stimulating the surviving auditory neurons. However, CI users perform poorly in challenging listening tasks such as speech recognition in noise and Cochlear implants (CIs) partially restore …
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Dynamical mechanisms of neural firing irregularity and modulation sensitivity with applications to cochlear implants
The degree of irregularity apparent in the discharge patterns of electrically stimulated auditory-nerve fibers depends upon the stimulation rate. Whereas fibers fire regularly at low stimulation rates, the same fibers fire irregularly at high rates. The irregularity observed at high stimulation …
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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Parental Perspectives of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cochlear Implants
… is a useful way to quantify benefits that cochlear implants (CI) provide children with hearing loss. Since children often are too young or lack communication skills to convey their HRQoL, parents serve as a reliable proxy. This study examines parent report of HRQoL (categorized in eight …
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Towards a better speech processor for cochlear implants : auditory- nerve responses to high-rate electric pulse trains
Cochlear implants are prosthetic devices that seek to restore hearing in profoundly deaf patients by electrically stimulating the auditory-nerve (AN). With current implants, the representation of the sound waveform in temporal discharge patterns of the auditory nerve is severely distorted. The …
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Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children with Cochlear Implants, and in Normal Hearing Adults and Children
… than English. Furthermore, many children with cochlear implants (CI) have deficits in sentence comprehension. Until now, these deficits have been attributed only to syntax, leaving prosody a neglected area, despite its clear deficit on this population and the role it plays in sentence …
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Systematic review of speech and language intervention for young children with cochlear implants : a guide for speech language pathologists
… who are identified early in life and fitted with cochlear implants (CI) grows, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are likely encounter clients from this population. However, the majority of SLPs are not educated as to the various modes of communication that can be used with children with CI as …
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Assessment of speech and auditory performances in patients with hearing aids and cochlear implants: the role of ecological environments and challenging communication scenarios
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Improving Understanding of Emotional Speech Acoustic Content
Children with cochlear implants show deficits in identifying emotional intent of utterances without facial or body language cues. A known limitation to cochlear implants is the inability to accurately portray the fundamental frequency contour of speech which carries the majority of information …
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Implanted : technology and connection in the deaf world
… 1984, the FDA approved a medical device called a cochlear implant for adult use in the United States. Unlike assistive hearing technologies that came before it, such as hearing aids, cochlear implants could offer wider access to sound even to the profoundly deaf. Given adult success with the …
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