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Evaluation of five different cochlear implant designs: Audiologic assessment and predictors of performance
Author(s) -
Tyler Richard S.,
Abbas Paul,
TyeMurray Nancy,
Gantz Bruce J.,
Knutson John F.,
Mccabe Brian F.,
Lansing Charissa,
Brown Carolyn,
Woodworth George,
Hinrichs James,
Kuk Francis
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-198810000-00013
Subject(s) - cochlear implant , audiology , reading (process) , channel (broadcasting) , medicine , psychology , engineering , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy
The audiologic performance of 54 postlingually deafened adults wearing cochlear implants was uniformly evaluated. The participants had 9 months' or more experience with one of five different cochlear prostheses (Los Angeles Single Channel (N = 11), Vienna Single Channel (N = 4), Melbourne Multichannel (N = 18), Utah Multichannel (N = 19), San Francisco Multichannel (N = 2). The multichannel designs enabled participants to recognize more environmental sounds, provided more speech reading enhancement, and enabled most users to understand limited speech in the sound‐only condition, compared to the single‐channel implant group.