Cochlear implantation in paediatric auditory neuropathy

✍ Scribed by Lee-Suk Kim; Sung-Wook Jung; Young-Deok Park; Min-Jung Heo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 47 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1467-0100
• DOI: 10.1002/cii.241

✦ Synopsis

needs and cultural differences that may influence decision making. It has to be explained to parents that there is a 25% or greater chance that any future children will likely have a similar degree of hearing loss.

The difference in the three sisters' performance can be attributed to factors such as age at implantation and length of use of the implant. With relatively equal length of implantation and form of rehabilitation, the third child exhibits greater auditory detection and perception abilities over the other two. However, as this case report focused only on one family it cannot be generalized to the average family with multiple children with hearing impairment who may not achieve comparable results.

Further research is encouraged to establish presence of a gene mutation and subsequently identify environmental factors that trigger it. Also, habilitation outcomes on a more regular basis, taking into consideration all aspects of therapy, should be conducted.