Can Mandarin-speaking prelingual deaf adults benefit from cochlear implant?

CONCLUSIONS: Adult CI recipients who deaf before the age of 4 can experience benefits in social-emotional life functioning, regardless of their limited auditory performance and speech intelligibility. Therefore, prelingual Mandarin-speaking deaf adults, especially those using oral communication, can be considered as relative indications for cochlear implantation.SIGNIFICANCE: To clarify and validate the benefits among Mandarin-speaking prelingual deaf adult recipients.PMID:38400594 | DOI:10.1080/00016489.2024.2315299

Source: Acta Oto-Laryngologica - February 24, 2024 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Po-Kai Huang Pei-Hsuan Ho Chia-Huei Chu Pey-Yu Chen Hung-Ching Lin Source Type: research