Abstract
The hearing performance of six post-lingually deaf adults implanted with the Nucleus 22-channel device are presented. All patients achieved measurable open set speech recognition with implant alone. The best hearing performance was achieved with a combination of lipreading and cochlear implant. For this condition our group achieved an average open set speech discrimination score of 85% (CID sentences) and an average speech tracking rate of 70 words per minute. We attribute the success of our group to careful pre-operative selection, including attention to candidate motivation towards hearing rehabilitation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 24-27 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Otolaryngology |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 1989 |