Cochlear Implants (eBook)

Huw R. Cooper, MSc, Consultant Audiological Scientist, after obtaining his Master's degree in audiology at Southampton University in 1983, joined the team at University College Hospital, London, where he initially worked on tinnitus research. He was then closely involved in the set-up and development of the new UCH/RNID Cochlear Implant Programme, which led the way in establishing cochlear implantation in the UK. Since 1991, he has managed the audiology services at University Hospital Birmingham, including overseeing the growth and development of the Midlands Adult and the Birmingham Children's Cochlear Implant Programmes. His research interests include Neural Response Telemetry and Auditory Perceptual Grouping, on which topic he is currently working towards a PhD. Huw lives just outside Birmingham with his wife and three teenage children. Louise C. Craddock, MSc, CCC-A, Audiological Scientist, originally trained as a teacher of hearing-impaired children and taught in London for twelve years before obtaining her MSc in Audiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Since then she has worked on the UCL Adult and Nuffield Paediatric Cochlear Implant Programmes in London and is now the Co-ordinator of the Midlands Adult Cochlear Implant Programme in Birmingham. She has a research interest in objective measures in cochlear implantation, particularly in Neural Response Telemetry, and has published and presented her work in this area. Louise lives in Birmingham with her husband and two young daughters.

Cochlear Implants A Practical Guide Second Edition 3
Contents 7
Contributors 9
Preface 12
About the authors 13
Introduction 14
Chapter 1 Implant design and development 17
Chapter 2 Speech processing strategies 37
Chapter 3 The cochlear implant team 86
Chapter 4 Assessment of adult patients 96
Chapter 5 Assessment of children 122
Chapter 6 Selection criteria and prediction of outcomes 148
Chapter 7 Psychological aspects of cochlear implantation 167
Chapter 8 Medical and surgical considerations 195
Chapter 9 Radiological evaluation in cochlear implantation 215
Chapter 10 Cochlear implant surgery 232
Chapter 11 Utility of electrically evoked potentials in cochlear implant users 261
Chapter 12 Device programming 290
Chapter 13 Adult rehabilitation 315
Chapter 14 Paediatric habilitation 338
Chapter 15 Soundfield hearing for patients with cochlear implants and hearing aids 354
Chapter 16 The future of cochlear implants 383
Chapter 17 A patient’s perspective 396
Chapter 18 A parent’s perspective 403
Index 427