Cochlear implantation in Quebec city: auditory performance in a recently trained patient

The Quebec Cochlear Implant Research Program has implanted nine patients since 1984. At the same time, we have been developing some original rehabilitative material for these French speaking patients. This paper reports the results obtained with our last adult patient. With his implant, J-P.F. has clearly improved his auditory response to sounds. After the training period, he demonstrated good abilities in detection, discrimination, identification and comprehension of sounds, phonemes, words and sentences. His lipreading has improved. The performance observed with this patient is comparable with the data reported in other studies using the same implant device.