A Study to Determine Various Factors Influencing Auditory Outcomes in Paediatric Cochlear Implantation

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Nijmegen cochlear implant questionnaire into Turkish language: validity, reliability and effects of demographic variables

“…The evaluation of the quality of life, employing the NCIQ pre- and post-CI has been examined in detail in previous studies [ 9 , 25 , 32 ], where a significant increase in post-implantation NCIQ scores has been reported. Since this study coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, participants’ quality of life before and after implantation was not examined with the Tr-NCIQ and was not supported by objective audiological outcomes either.…”

“…Despite technological advances in surgical techniques, electrode designs, sound processors, programming methods, and even rehabilitation recently, CI users can differ in terms of speech understanding and QoL outcomes [ 3 ]. Individual variability such as age [ 6 ], cognitive skills [ 7 ], the duration of the auditory deprivation [ 8 ], the use of hearing aid before CI [ 9 , 10 ], age of implantation [ 9 , 11 ], and low-frequency residual hearing [ 12 ] can affect both access to sounds and QoL after implantation. The effects of these factors on auditory and language development have been evaluated by behavioral test methods such as a response to environmental sounds (13), speech recognition threshold (SRT) [ 14 ], speech recognition score (SRS) [ 15 ], and sentence tests in noise [ 16 ].…”

The evolution of children hearing loss: Research progress on recent trends and advances

“…In the treatment of bilateral hearing loss (BHL), Cochlear implantation (CI) can be used for the treatment of patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss [33]. The longer a patient spends in rehabilitation training and the younger he or she is at implantation, the better his or her hearing and speech skills will recover [3]. When it comes to Auditory training (AT), person with hearing impairments actively listens to a variety of auditory stimuli in order to improve their hearing skills, and then improve their perception and discrimination of sounds [34][35][36].…”

“…There is ample evidence that early intervention is a key factor in achieving optimal treatment outcomes [2]. Under the same condition of cochlear implantation, patients at a younger age of implantation, use a hearing aid before surgery and with cochlear morphology, will have better audiological and speech outcomes [3]. The ear can be divided into three structures, the external, the middle and the inner [5] , and the specific ear structure is shown in figure 1.…”

“…Cochlear implantation is an established procedure for the treatment of severe hearing impairment [3]. In the treatment of unilateral hearing loss, non-surgical methods, like FM system (a conventional choice for patients with mild to profound UHL) has a good effect for patients with mild to moderate UHL, which is more effective than conventional hearing aids.…”