...Kyoko Shirai; Yusuke Saito; Keiichi Satoh; Ayako Tomizawa; Naoko Nonami; Sachi Maeda; Nobuhiro Nishiyama; Ryota Tomioka; Kiyoaki Tsukahara Introduction: Despite improved hearing, children who receive cochlear implants (CIs) at a later age encounter difficulties in adapting to society, exposing them...

...Hilal Burcu Ozkan Atak; Filiz Aslan; Gonca Sennaroglu; Levent Sennaroglu Introduction: Auditory performance and language proficiency in young children who utilize auditory brainstem implants (ABIs) throughout the first 3 years of life are difficult to predict. ABI users have challenges as a result...

...Daniel R. Romano; Sampat Sindhar; Lauren H. Yaeger; Judith E.C. Lieu Background: Many studies have shown increased academic problems in children with unilateral hearing loss (UHL). However, whether hearing devices can ameliorate the educational difficulties associated with UHL is not well studied...

... is based on presence of otoacoustic emissions and lack of, or abnormal, brainstem auditory evoked potential. With respect to treatment, we have variable results in the literature about development of speech perception and skills, in children with AN and cochlear implant (CI) rehabilitation. Objectives...

...Sherifa A. Hamed; Ali F. ElHadad; Amira M. Oseily Background: Vestibular system is critical for maintaining balance and learning complex tasks. This study aimed to determine the frequencies, types, and predictors of vestibular dysfunctions (VDs) in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) using...

...Lisa R. Park; Elizabeth L. Perkins; Jennifer S. Woodard; Kevin D. Brown Introduction: As pediatric cochlear implant (CI) candidacy expands, children with greater degrees of residual hearing are receiving CIs. These nontraditional candidates have audiometric thresholds that meet adult manufacturer...

...Gorkem Ertugrul; Filiz Aslan; Gonca Sennaroglu; Levent Sennaroglu Background: Young children are able to explore new objects and practice language through the acquisition of motor skills that lead to their overall development. Congenital hearing loss and total vestibular loss may contribute...

.... There was considerable variation in outcomes. Children with coexisting developmental and nonauditory cognitive disabilities did not perform as well. Auditory brainstem implantation is a safe and beneficial treatment for profound prelingual deafness in Cantonese-speaking pediatric patients. [email protected]...

...Sylvia Meuret; Alexandra Annemarie Ludwig; Dorothee Predel; Burkhard Staske; Michael Fuchs The present study investigated two measures of spatial acoustic perception in children and adolescents with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) tested without their hearing aids and compared it to age-matched...

... contexts were analyzed. Results: Eighty children were included. USNHL was profound in 68%, could be progressive in 19%, and become bilateral in 7.5% of cases. Inner ear malformations were identified in 41% of cases; cochlear nerve deficiency (CND) was frequent (33%). Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection...

...Leo De Raeve; Anneke Vermeulen; Ad Snik The aim of this study is to assess the role of bilateral/bimodal device use in auditory speech perception in complex listening situations and long-term verbal cognition in deaf children using cochlear implants (CIs). Two groups of children are compared...

...Chin-Lung Kuo; Chiang-Feng Lien; An-Suey Shiao Objective: To analyze the long-term safety of mastoid obliteration with cartilage in children with suppurative cholesteatomatous ears. Methods: The medical records of children (≤18 years) with cholesteatomas after primary tympanomastoidectomies were...

...Chad V. Ruffin; William G. Kronenberger; Bethany G. Colson; Shirley C. Henning; David B. Pisoni This study investigated long-term speech and language outcomes in 51 prelingually deaf children, adolescents and young adults who received cochlear implants (CIs) prior to 7 years of age and had used...

...S. Kühnle; A.A. Ludwig; S. Meuret; C. Küttner; C. Witte; J. Scholbach; M. Fuchs; R. Rübsamen The present study investigated the development of two parameters of spatial acoustic perception in children and adolescents with normal hearing, aged 6–18 years. Auditory localization accuracy...

...J. Beijen; A.F.M. Snik; L.V. Straatman; E.A.M. Mylanus; L.H.M. Mens The aims of the study were to investigate whether sound localization acuity improved when children with 1 cochlear implant use a hearing aid in the contralateral ear (bimodal fitting), and whether this enabled them to benefit from...

...Lieselot Van Deun; Astrid van Wieringen; Fanny Scherf; Naïma Deggouj; Christian Desloovere; F. Erwin Offeciers; Paul H. Van de Heyning; Ingeborg J. Dhooge; Jan Wouters We present sound localization results from 30 children with bilateral cochlear implants. All children received their implants...

...Anja Elgeti; Antoinette Gertrud am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen; Peter Matulat; Claus-Michael Schmidt; Arne Knief Reduced speech-in-noise intelligibility is one of the main difficulties experienced by children with auditory processing disorder (APD). Previous studies have established a relationship between...

...Jiunn-Liang Wu; Hui-Mei Yang; Yi-Hui Lin; Qian-Jie Fu The present study investigated whether moderate amounts of computer-assisted speech training can improve the speech recognition performance of hearing-impaired children. Ten Mandarin-speaking children (3 hearing aid users and 7 cochlear implant...

...Sonya Khan; Lindsey Edwards; Dawn Langdon Hearing impairment has been associated with cognitive deficits. It is not yet clear whether cochlear implants enable children to reduce or overcome these deficits. This study examined whether hearing impaired children with cochlear implants differed from...

...Chava Muchnik; Daphne Ari-Even Roth; Rima Othman-Jebara; Hanna Putter-Katz; Esther L. Shabtai; Minka Hildesheimer A common complaint of children with auditory processing disorders (APD) is difficulty in understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Evidence from animal and human studies...