“…In most publications, it was stated that there was a trial period with a conventional hearing aid before cochlear implantation, because this was part of the indications to be considered for a CI in the first place [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 12 , 21 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 ] with ANSD. If there was no improvement in speech understanding or language development with these interventions, the children were fitted with a CI.…”