Title Statements
- Full title :Cochlear implants / [edited by] Susan B. Waltzman, J. Thomas Roland, Jr.
Summary
This second edition provides intensive review of the newest cochlear implant technology. It covers the important issues of cochlear implant candidacy evaluation ...
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2006.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Thieme
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 243) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781604065350, 1604065354, 1282865102, 9781282865105
- oclc:ocn831685430
- LC Classification:RF305
- Dewey Decimal:617.8
Table of Contents
History of the cochlear implant -- Genetic predictors of cochlear implant outcome -- Consequences of deafness and electrical stimulation on the peripheral and central auditory system -- Sound processors in cochlear implants -- Possibilities for a closer mimicking of normal auditory functions with cochlear implants -- Selection of cochlear implant candidates -- Principles of cochlear implant imaging -- Electrophysiology and device telemetry -- Cochlear implant electrode history, choices, and insertion techniques -- Complications of cochlear implant surgery -- Device programming -- Speech perception in children with cochlear implants.
Language development in children with cochlear implants -- Speech production by people with cochlear implants -- Interventional approaches and educational options in the United States for people with cochlear implants -- Cochlear implantation and deaf education: conflict or collaboration? -- Speech perception by adults with multichannel cochlear implants -- Advantages of binaural hearing -- Acoustical and electrical speech processing -- Auditory brainstem implants -- Considerations for devising a totally implantatble cochlear implant.
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