NIH R01 · 2024
Predicting Performance in Adult Cochlear Implantation
Cochlear implants (Cl) can restore audibility, speech understanding, and communication abilities for adults with hearing loss receiving limited benefit from hearing aids, thereby improving quality of life. Despite the success of Cls, there remains wide variability in performance related to both patient and treatment factors. Biographical/audiological variables such as age, age at onset, duration, etiology, and severity of hearing loss as well as duration of hearing aid and Cl use together with surgical factors have long been used to predict speech perception performance. These variables account for only 10-20% of the variability in speech perception test scores in quiet, implying they are…
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