Telephone Use by Patients Fitted with the lneraid Cochlear Implant
- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Ear & Hearing
- Vol. 12 (5) , 368-369
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003446-199110000-00014
Abstract
A survey of telephone use by 66 patients fitted with the Ineraid cochlear prosthesis revealed that 51% initiate telephone calls (most calls are to family or friends) and that 66% answer the telephone. Of the patients who answer the telephone, 49% indicated that they could identify the gender and/or age of the caller most of the time, 27% could identify a familiar caller most of the time, and 48% indicated that they could understand a conversation most of the time if speaking to a familiar speaker about a familiar topic. Understanding dropped rapidly as the speaker and topic became unfamiliar (Ear Hear 12 5368-369).Keywords
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