Predictive factors and outcomes in Romanian implanted patients

摘要

Introduction: Cochlear implants provide users speech perception and production and access to mainstream education. Many studies have shown that some implanted children achieve a higher level of speech recognition, whereas other children demonstrate more limited skills. Material, Methods: Our study included 60 implanted children, prelingual deaf. We assessed the speech perception and production outcomes using CAP and SIR scales and correlated them with some predictor factors. Results: Both speech perception and production improved continuously over time, regardless the age of implantation, but the improvement depends on much more factors related to the patient, environment, device and family. Conclusions: Cochlear implant improves the speech perception and production no matter the age at implantation but the speech perception and the quality of speech production are more complex and depend on much more factors.