Margaret W. Skinner

TL;DR: There are a number of factors that limit CI outcomes that can act singularly or collectively to restrict an individual’s performance and to varying degrees and knowledge of when and how these factors affect performance can favorably influence counseling, device fitting, and rehabilitation for individual patients.

TL;DR: It is suggested that this variability in electrode placement can be reduced and average speech reception improved by better selection of cochleostomy sites, revised insertion approaches, and control of insertion depth during surgical placement of the array.

TL;DR: Results indicate that an additional $4.6 billion will be spent over the lifetime of persons who acquired their impairment in 1998, suggesting interventions aimed at children, such as early identification and/or aggressive medical intervention, may have a substantial payback.

TL;DR: Subjects showed marked improvement in recognition of sentences in noise with the new SPEAK filterbank strategy, agreeing closely with subjects' responses to a questionnaire on which approximately 80 percent reported they heard best with the SPEak strategy for everyday listening situations.

TL;DR: Speech perception measures used with cochlear implant candidates and recipients should reflect the listening challenges that individuals encounter in natural communication situations and provide the basis for recommending new candidacy criteria based on speech recognition tests presented at 60 and/or 50 dB SPL, intensity levels that reflect real-life listening, rather than 70 dB SPL.