Rehabilitation of 42 Pelingually Deafened Children with Multichannel Cochlear Implant / 听力学及言语疾病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To assess the hearing, language and intelligence in prelingually deafened children with multichannel cochlear implant ,and to analysie the basic pattern of speech recognition and language development.Methods 42 prelingually deafened children with cochlear implant participated in this study. The “Evaluating method on hearing and language rehabilitation in deafened children” was used as test material.Results The average hearing of these deafened children with cochlear implant was 35 dB HL.The correct recognition rate and language ability were escalating with prolonging the implanted time. Subjects showing significant progress half year after operation indicated that the cochlear implant could promote prelingually deafened children to develop their hearing and language level.Conclusion With scientific and systemic rehabilitation training, prelingually deaf children, who have ordinary intelligence,will have significant progress half year after the operation.