Cochlear implants implant is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception.
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12 Facts About Cochlear implants
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One of the challenges that remain with these Cochlear implants is that hearing and speech understanding skills after implantation show a wide range of variation across individual implant users.
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However, research indicated that these single-channel cochlear implants were of limited usefulness because they cannot stimulate different areas of the cochlea at different times to allow differentiation between low and mid to high frequencies as required for detecting speech.
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Deaf adolescents with cochlear implants attending mainstream educational settings report high levels of scholastic self-esteem, friendship self-esteem, and global self-esteem.
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The reviews found that, overall, while cochlear implants provide open-set speech understanding for the majority of implanted profoundly hearing-impaired children, it was not possible to accurately predict the specific outcome of the given implanted child.
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In terms of quality of life, several studies have shown that cochlear implants are beneficial in many aspects of quality of life, including communication improvements and positive effects on social, emotional, psychological and physical well-being.
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Cochlear implants implantation includes the medical device as well as related services and procedures including pre-operative testing, the surgery, and aftercare that includes audiology and speech language pathology services.
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WHO reports that cochlear implants have been shown to be a cost-effective way to mitigate the challenges of hearing loss.
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Much of the strongest objection to cochlear implants has come from within the Deaf community, some of whom are pre-lingually deaf people whose first language is a sign language.
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Some in the Deaf community call cochlear implants audist and an affront to their culture, which, as they view it, is a minority threatened by the hearing majority.
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Children with cochlear implants are most likely to be educated with listening and spoken language, without sign language and are often not educated with other Deaf children who use sign language.
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Cochlear implants have been one of the technological and social factors implicated in the decline of sign languages in the developed world.
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