Language development of a multiply handicapped child after cochlear implantation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Rie Nagayasu; Shoichiro Fukuda; Kunihiro Fukushima; Akemi Sugata; Namiki Kibayashi; Kazunori Nishizaki; Yukihide Maeda; Norio Kasai; Keiko Tsukamura; Naomi Toida
- Source
- International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 67:627-633
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
medicine.medical_treatment
Audiology
Intellectual Disability
Cochlear implant
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
medicine
Humans
Language Development Disorders
Child
Hearing Loss
Cochlear implantation
Language ability
business.industry
Cognitive delay
Infant
Recovery of Function
General Medicine
Chronological age
Cochlear Implantation
Language development
Treatment Outcome
Otorhinolaryngology
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
sense organs
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0165-5876
The presence of additional handicaps in hearing-impaired children makes the prediction of language ability after cochlear implantation unreliable. Only limited follow-up data on developmental improvement after implantation among multiply handicapped children is available. The present study reports the course of development (audiological and linguistic) after cochlear implantation in one subject with moderate mental retardation. Preoperatively, his language development showed 34 months delay when compared to chronological age. The difference had shortened to 23 months by 2 years post-surgery. The subject's cognitive delay had not changed upon 2-year follow-up. The cochlear implant can be credited to his improvement in language development.