Targeted Auditory Rehabilitation Employing Direct Audio Input in Children With Single-Sided Deafness Using a Cochlear Implant.
Limor Adi-Bensaid, Yifat Yaar-Soffer, Carmel Eldar and 1 others
PMID 41128552WHAT IT FOUND
Most children with single-sided deafness using a cochlear implant achieved open-set speech recognition after targeted auditory training, but spatial hearing remained poor.
Daily implant use correlated with better speech scores. No control group was used, so these outcomes reflect what happened with the protocol, not proof that it works.
Key findings
0122 of 33 children achieved open-set speech perception, while 5 achieved closed-set and 6 remained at detection level only.
02Speech perception scores were positively correlated with daily hours of cochlear implant use, but not with age at implantation or duration of use.
03Parental reports showed high scores for speech and qualities of hearing, but spatial hearing scores were the lowest domain.
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What it does not show
There was no control group, so it is impossible to determine if the outcomes were due to the specific protocol or natural development and general rehabilitation. The cohort was heterogeneous in terms of deafness etiology and duration of implant use. Pre-implantation language data were not available, so gains from the protocol cannot be quantified against a baseline. Data-logging periods for device use were not standardized across participants. Binaural testing was only possible in 14 of the 33 children due to age and task demands.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the 53% open-set word recognition score as evidence that this specific protocol is superior to other rehabilitation approaches. Without a control group, this result describes the outcome of a single cohort and does not prove the intervention caused the improvement.
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