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Cochlear implant results: A comparison of live‐voice and videotaped tests
Author(s) -
Gray Roger F.,
Wareing Michael J.,
Court Ivy
Publication year - 1995
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 - 10.1288/00005537-199509000-00022
Subject(s) - cochlear implant , implant , audiology , sentence , medicine , reading (process) , cochlear implantation , surgery , computer science , artificial intelligence , political science , law
The Cambridge Cochlear Implant Programme has so far implanted the Ineraid multichannel cochlear implant in 16 profoundly deaf adult patients; there has been a 9‐month or longer follow‐up period with these patients. We have evaluated these patients by open‐set Bamford‐Kowal‐Bench (BKB) Standard Sentence List testing in two different delivery strategies, live‐speaker testing by the same speaker and highresolution videotaped testing. The performance in lip reading both before and 9 months after implantation has been tested, as well as performance with the implant alone and with the implant in conjunction with lip reading at the 9‐month stage. We have compared the performance in these two delivery strategies and have found a significantly better performance in the live‐speaker tests that is attributable to slower and perhaps more sympathetic delivery. We have also found evidence of a ceiling effect in the performance of the implant with lip reading in the live‐speaker mode and, of greater importance, a floor effect in the performance of the implant alone with the videotaped test. These results and the implications for a complementary role of these two test‐delivery modes are discussed.