Influence of communication mode on speech intelligibility and syntactic structure of sentences in profoundly hearing impaired French children implanted between 5 and 9 years of age

Articulation skills in Turkish speaking children with cochlear implant

“…Several studies have revealed that using CI proved itself to be helpful on speech perception and production [4][5][6][7]. Studies show that for the prelingually deaf children the development of speech skills becomes easier through CI [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. The children with profound hearing loss have considerable difficulties in the development and maintenance of intelligible speech, and thus frequently have delayed and disordered speech production patterns, and show a wide range of abnormal speech abilities with less phonetic repertories including multiple errors and substitutions [15].…”

Factors Associated with Development of Speech Production Skills in Children Implanted by Age Five

“…Gains in overall speech intelligibility after cochlear implantation are reported in several studies using rating scales or item identification tasks (Archbold, Nikolopoulos, Tait, O'Donoghue, Lutman, & Gregory, 2000;Miyamoto et al, 1996;Mondain et al, 1997;O'Donoghue, Nikolopoulos, Archbold, & Tait, 1999;Osberger et al, 1996;Tobey, Angelette, Murchison, Nicosia, Sprague, Staller, Brimacombe, & Beiter, 1991;Tobey et al, 2000;Vieu et al, 1998). Studies contrasting speech intelligibility before and at various times postimplantation routinely demonstrate significant increases in intelligibility.…”

“…Language skills in children with profound hearing losses appear to be positively influenced with increased experience using cochlear implants (Coerts & Mills, 1995;Svirsky, 2000;Svirsky, Robbins, Kirk, Pisoni, & Miyamoto, 2000). Improvements in the use of verbs, pronouns, adjectives, nouns and determiners are observed 3 yr postimplantation (Vieu et al, 1998). Measures of standardized receptive and expressive language use demonstrate steady improvement of language skills with increased experience with cochlear implants, particularly in children who are implanted at early ages and who use the most current cochlear implant technology (Svirsky, 2000).…”

Prognostic indicators in paediatric cochlear implant surgery: a systematic literature review

“…As it stands, the literature contains a plethora of works relevant to these factors, but the great majority of studies so far are anecdotal in nature (see Table 5), or contain structural faults that impede optimal contribution to this field (Mylanus et al, 2004;Luntz et al, 2001;Vieu et al, 1998;Pulsifer et al, 2003;El-Hakim et al, 2001a, b;Luntz et al, 2004;Bracket and Zara, 1998). Currently, adequate case control evaluations are few.…”

“…Nine papers were excluded using the CATCCS for various reasons: poor control groups, varying aetiology (Mylanus et al, 2004) (one paper); disputable outcomes, inappropriate evaluation (Luntz et al, 2001) (one paper); inadequate amount of evidence (Vieu et al, 1998;Pulsifer et al, 2003;Luntz et al, 2004;El-Hakim et al, 2001a, b;Brackett and Zara, 1998) (five papers); evidence of bias, inadequate statistics, presence of confounders (Hammes et al, 2002) (one paper); and insufficient prognostic value (Horn et al, 2005) (one paper). There were no studies included in the final analysis from the audiology, psychology, family, or education domains.…”