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Systematic Hearing Performance Evaluation Process for Adolescents with Cochlear Implantation at Early Ages
Published on: March 24, 2023
Cochlear-implant listeners benefit from training with time-compressed speech, even at advanced ages
Amara C Ezenwa1, Matthew J Goupell1, Sandra Gordon-Salant1
1Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USAacezenwa@umd.edu, goupell@umd.edu, sgsalant@umd.edu.
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This study evaluated whether adaptive training with time-compressed speech produces an age-dependent improvement in speech recognition in 14 adult cochlear-implant users. The protocol consisted of a pretest, 5 h of training, and a posttest using time-compressed speech and an adaptive procedure. There were significant improvements in time-compressed speech recognition at the posttest session following training (>5% in the average time-compressed speech recognition threshold) but no effects of age. These results are promising for the use of adaptive training in aural rehabilitation strategies for cochlear-implant users across the adult lifespan and possibly using speech signals, such as time-compressed speech, to train temporal processing.
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