LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Mean Length of Utterance in Children with
Cochlear Implant versus Normal Hearing Children

Lenin Babu and Sreevidya Sherla

Introduction

Children with severe-to-profound hearing loss can develop spoken communication via audition with amplification or assistive devices. In the past, though the hearing aids were widely used as amplification devices they had many limitations, like could not provide much amplification in the higher frequencies. In recent years, multichannel cochlear implantation (CI) has become more prevalent among the population of pre-lingually profound bilateral hearing impaired children who cannot acquire adequate speech with the help of powerful hearing aids. With the multichannel cochlear implantation, researchers found that the auditory skills (McConkey Robbins, Koch, Osberger, Zimmerman-Phillips, & Kishon-Rabin, 2004), speech perception (Waltzman and Hochberg, 1990), speech production (Tobey et al., 1991) as well as speech intelligibility of the CI users can be improved significantly. Moreover, it was found that when cochlear implant was fitted to a prelingually deafened child, the rate of language skills development is about the same as that of normal hearing children (Mellon, 2001).

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Lenin Babu
Clinical Assistant
Hellen Keller’s Institute of Research & Rehabilitation for the disabled
children, Sricolony
Opposite G.K. Colony Bus Stop
R.K. Puram
Secunderabad500056
Andhra Pradesh
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Sreevidya Sherla
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Clinical Assistant
Hellen Keller’s Institute of Research & Rehabilitation for the disabled children, Sricolony
Opposite G.K. Colony Bus Stop
R.K. Puram
Secunderabad 500056
Andhra Pradesh
India
srividyakusuma@gmail.com
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