Waltzman S B, Cohen N L, Shapiro W H
Department of Otolaryngology, NYU School of Medicine, New York 10016.
Laryngoscope. 1992 Apr;102(4):395-9. doi: 10.1288/00005537-199204000-00005.
Fourteen children and three adults, each congenitally and prelinguistically deaf, received the Nucleus multichannel implant. All underwent extensive evaluations and rehabilitation. The surgery was uneventful, and no patients have been lost to follow-up. Results have shown a significant increase in auditory and speech reception and perception skills in all children. Some children have open-set speech recognition using the prosthesis alone. The adults have shown an increased awareness of sound along with minimal improvement in perceptual skills. This supports the concept that early implantation of congenitally and prelinguistically deaf individuals results in improved performance.
14名儿童和3名成人，均为先天性及语言前失聪，接受了Nucleus多通道植入。所有人都接受了广泛的评估和康复治疗。手术顺利，所有患者均未失访。结果显示，所有儿童的听觉和言语接收及感知技能都有显著提高。一些儿童仅使用假体就能进行开放式言语识别。成人对声音的感知有所增强，感知技能也有轻微改善。这支持了先天性及语言前失聪个体早期植入可改善表现的观点。
