Deaf children: Study shows significant language progress after two cochlear implants

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University of Wisconsin - Madison News - October 24, 2011

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Deaf children: Study shows significant language progress after two cochlear

implants

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Tenenbaum

An ongoing study of 45 deaf children who had two cochlear implants finds

that their language skills are within the normal range. Cochlear implants

replace the eardrum by delivering an electric signal from a microphone to

the auditory nerves located in the cochlea in the inner ear.

The study, the first good evidence that a second implant helps with

understanding speech, was presented at a Midwestern meeting of experts on

cochlear implants held at the <http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/> Waisman Center

at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Complete article: http://www.news.wisc.edu/19941