Speech intelligibility and subjective benefit in single-sided deaf adults after cochlear implantation

摘要

Treatment with cochlear implants (CIs) in single-sided deaf individuals started less than a decade ago. CIs can successfully reduce incapacitating tinnitus on the deaf ear and allow, so some extent, the restoration of binaural hearing. Until now, systematic evaluations of subjective CI benefit in post-lingually single sided deaf individuals and analyses of speech intelligibility outcome for the CI in isolation have been lacking.