Evaluation of auditory brainstem implant (ABI) users’ auditory behavior in everyday life

Auditory performance and language skills in children with auditory brainstem implants and cochlear implants

“…Thus, children with limited auditory access, who do not receive sufficient auditory input in routine listening environments, may develop limited verbal language. Also, there are several studies evaluating hearing performance and language skills in ABI users [1,7,14,27]. The present findings are consistent with these studies.…”

“…Thanks to the CHAPS subsections detailed in the method section, attention and memory performances underlying routine skills such as maintaining a conversation, executing multiple commands, and answering questions can be assessed. The present study assumes a unique contribution to the literature in terms of investigating auditory performance in quiet, noisy, ideal, multi-stimulus environments and environments requiring auditory attention-memory [1,7,10,14]. Similar to other studies assessing hearing quality of life and daily life hearing performance, this study also showed that children with the ABI were poorer [1,14,27].…”

“…The present study assumes a unique contribution to the literature in terms of investigating auditory performance in quiet, noisy, ideal, multi-stimulus environments and environments requiring auditory attention-memory [1,7,10,14]. Similar to other studies assessing hearing quality of life and daily life hearing performance, this study also showed that children with the ABI were poorer [1,14,27]. Possible reasons for this finding may be the lack of auditory stimuli in the preoperative period in children with ABI, different tonotopic organization of the ABI placement site, inability to reach optimum hearing thresholds due to postoperative fitting and follow-up difficulties, and differences in the experience of specialists [2,17,21,30,31].…”

“…A systematic review of the change of speech perception with cochlear implantation showed that children experienced a sharp improvement in early speech perception in 1 year after implantation. Children who are younger than 18 months benefit from CI in terms of speech recognition faster [3,10,14,27]. On the other hand, ABI develops spoken language in children, but this happens slowly and gradually.…”

“…There are a limited number of studies that include functional assessment of hearing quality and daily life hearing performance in children using CI and ABI [1,7,10,14]. According to these studies, although patients are unhappy with their ABI in some communication skills, overall, their quality of life improves over time.…”