Maltese children with a hearing impairment : analysis of the current situation and its impact on the quality of life of parents [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding the effect that a diagnosis of a childhood hearing loss has on parents would help professionals adopt an approach which diminishes parents’ possible negative feelings and concerns. A sample of parents of children with hearing impairment
Grima, Ritienne, Sciberras, Stefan
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Bimodal Cochlear Implants: Measurement of the Localization Performance as a Function of Device Latency Difference [PDF]
arXivBimodal cochlear implant users show poor localization performance. One reason for this is a difference in the processing latency between the hearing aid and the cochlear implant side. It has been shown that reducing this latency difference acutely improves the localization performance of bimodal cochlear implant users.
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A Single-Processor Approach to Speech Processing Pipeline of Bilateral Cochlear Implants [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 This dissertation covers a single-processor approach to the speech processing pipeline of bilateral Cochlear Implants (CIs). The use of only a single processor to provide binaural stimulation signals overcomes the synchronization problem, which is an existing challenging problem in the deployment of bilateral CI devices.
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Early exposure to both sign and spoken language for children who are deaf or hard of hearing: Might it help spoken language development? [PDF]
, 2016 The literature on the benefits and deficits of bilingualism is reviewed with an emphasis on sign/spoken bilingualism and on the population of deaf or hard of hearing children.
Farber, Stephanie
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Why a diagnosis of neurofibromatosis calls for the attention of a deaf educator [PDF]
, 2016 This paper will seek to describe neurofibromatosis (NF), the scope of its impact, how NF relates to hearing loss, and why someone with a teacher of the deaf’s expertise may have information to offer the intervention team for a child diagnosed with ...
López, Lydia Marie
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Journal Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences, 2017 Background: Hearing impairment is a complete absence or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. It can range from a mild hearing loss to total deafness.
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Being all ears: A systemic perspective of the role of the psychologist in cochlear implantation
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2004 For those hearing-impaired individuals who do not derive any benefit from hearing amplification, cochlear implantation sometimes provides a useful alternative.
Elsie M. Schoeman, David P. Fourie
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Optical Wireless Cochlear Implants [PDF]
Biomedical Optics Express 2018, 2018 In the present contribution, we introduce a wireless optical communication-based system architecture which is shown to significantly improve the reliability and the spectral and power efficiency of the transcutaneous link in cochlear implants (CIs).
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Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Özel Eğitim Dergisi, 2018 The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between reasoning, working memory, and language in children with cochlear implants. A battery of tests of language, working memory, reasoning tasks, and speech perception tests was administered to ...
Hatice Akçakaya +3 more
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DeepSpeech models show Human-like Performance and Processing of Cochlear Implant Inputs [PDF]
arXivCochlear implants(CIs) are arguably the most successful neural implant, having restored hearing to over one million people worldwide. While CI research has focused on modeling the cochlear activations in response to low-level acoustic features, we hypothesize that the success of these implants is due in large part to the role of the upstream network in
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