16th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
February 26-28, 2017 • Atlanta, GA
| Bimodal Hearing in Children: A Retrospective Review at one Cochlear Implant Center
Bimodal Hearing in Children: A Retrospective Review at one Cochlear Implant Center
Cochlear implant candidacy continues to expand, and an increasing number of children are being implanted who have usable residual hearing in the contralateral ear. A bimodal listening condition (cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the contralateral ear) has been shown to provide binaural listening advantages with the combination of acoustic and electric information. Evidence shows that the largest benefit of bimodal hearing is an improvement in hearing in noisy situations. This poster examines the bimodal patient population at the Children’s Cochlear Implant Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The following demographic information was evaluated: etiology of hearing loss, residual hearing, progression of hearing loss, age at implantation, types of devices, performance of the cochlear implant, and what use of a hearing aid adds to performance, both in quiet and in noise.
- Attendees will describe the potential benefits of bimodal hearing
- Attendees will identify outcomes of bimodal hearing on speech perception in noise measures
- Attendees will describe why binaural cues are important for localization and speech perception in noise
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Katharina Boyce
(), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, katharina_burton@med.unc.edu;
Katharina is a full-time graduate student in UNC's AuD program and a LEND audiology trainee at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities.
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Holly Teagle
(), UNC-Chapel Hill, holly_teagle@med.unc.edu;
Dr. Teagle is Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Co-Director of the Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC.
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