Categories of auditory performance and speech intelligibility ratings of early-implanted children without speech training.

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether speech therapy can lead to better results for early cochlear implantation (CI) children. PATIENTS: A cohort of thirty-four congenitally profoundly deaf children who underwent CI before the age of 18 months at the Sixth Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong Universit...

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Main Authors: Huiqun Zhou, Zhengnong Chen, Haibo Shi, Yaqin Wu, Shankai Yin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3549925?pdf=render