Cochlear implant hearing performance at the University of Minnesota
Kimberley, B.P.; Lee, A.; Scheller, L.; Levine, S.; Adams, G.; Nelson, D.A.
Journal of Otolaryngology 18(1): 24-27
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0381-6605 PMID: 2921782 Document Number: 336304
The hearing performance of six post-lingually deaf adults implanted with the Nucleus 22-channel device are presented. All patients achieved measurable open set speech recognition with implant alone. The best hearing performance was achieved with a combination of lipreading and cochlear implant. For this condition our group achieved an average open set speech discrimination score of 85% (CID sentences) and an average speech tracking rate of 70 words per minute. We attribute the success of our group to careful pre-operative selection, including attention to candidate motivation toward hearing rehabilitation.