Pediatric Cochlear Implantation

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Abstract
COCHLEAR implants represent the most important advance in the treatment of individuals with profound deafness in the last century. Although most of the hearing-impaired population can hear speech through acoustic hearing aids, many persons with profound deafness obtain no such benefit. The impact of such profound deafness is particularly great in early childhood, as it severely restricts the ability to develop spoken language. For these children, cochlear implants represent the only means of hearing speech and thus of developing meaningful oral communication abilities.1-5

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