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Volume 12
To the Brain and Back: The Role of Visual Neuroplasticity in Cochlear Implant Users’ Speech Outcomes
Cochlear implants (CIs) can restore hearing function from deafness or profound hearing loss, but CI recipients’ long-term speech outcomes can vary widely. Some recover speech perception rapidly and show good listening performance in noisy environments. Others may rehabilitate slowly, struggle with simple words in quiet, or even fail to recover functional speech perception. Research has shown that several factors, such as the cause or duration of deafness, the amount of residual hearing, or whether deafness occurred before or after developing language, correlate with CI users’ long-term speech perception ability. However, much variation in CI users’ speech perception remains unexplained.
Volume 11
Audiology in the Classroom
Dr. Connie Mayer from York University, and Dr. Sue Archbold and Brian Lamb from the Cochlear Implant International Community of Action (CIICA) share the research and advocacy work of CIICA to understand the needs of adults with cochlear implants, services that are (or more frequently, are not) available to them, their experiences and recommendations for creating an international network of cochlear implant user groups, families, and professionals.
Volume 10
Teacher Questions: Do Cochlear Implants Work?
In these next few issues of Canadian Audiologist, Pam will address some of the common questions she hears from teachers. The first is, do cochlear implants work?
Volume 9
Mysteries of the Hearing Brain: Aging and Cochlear Implants
Although never directly involved in cochlear implant fittings, Samira Anderson’s practice changed dramatically when cochlear implantation became a viable solution for many patients.
Volume 7
Cochlear Implant Decision-Making for Children with Residual Hearing
The proportion of children with residual hearing who receive cochlear implants is increasing across Canada and worldwide. Na et al’s research is a useful first step in providing evidence to assist the CI decision-making process for this specific population.
Music Learning for Hearing Impaired and Deaf Children: Capabilities and Effects
The uOttawa Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from uOttawa Audiology and the ENT and Otolaryngology clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), has been running a research program to investigate the abilities of cochlear implant (CI) recipients in learning and performing music, and the effects of music learning on their hearing system and well-being.
Testing for Cochlear Dead Regions: Audiometer Implementation of the TEN(HL) Test
High thresholds in the TEN are likely in all cases to be associated with a poor ability to understand speech when background sounds are present.
Mysteries of the Hearing Brain — What Can Rate Code Tell Us About Cochlear-Implant and Older Listeners?
Samira Anderson looks at how impaired rate discrimination may affect an older person’s ability to understand speech in a cocktail party scenario.
Volume 6
Importance of Vestibular Testing in Cochlear Implant Assessments
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Audiologist Myron Huen from the Cochlear Implant team at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, shares her experience performing vestibular assessments in Cochlear Implant candidates.
Volume 5
Introducing Mysteries of the Hearing Brain!
Our newest contributor, Samira Anderson, provides a bit of personal and professional background, and the basis for her new column.