“…The manufacturers are similar in terms of customer support and are continually developing more sophisticated speech-processing strategies and algorithms. The latest generation processors offer better speech discrimination scores than the old generation of processors in adults and the biggest improvement was seen between 1 week and 3 months (Brough et al, 2010) irrespective of the device. In the current service evaluation, the most common reason reported by the patients and the parents of the children was related to comfort and fit, looks, and size of the processor.…”