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Better results without contralateral aid?
Enquiry: When a child gets significantly poorer results for sentence discrimination with an implant and hearing aid together than with the implant alone what are the possible reasons? Would this make him a better or worse candidate for a sequential implant? Could there be an element of APD associated with the result? Reply: It is considered good practice to use a hearing aid in the other ear to t...
Posted on May 11, 2010 17:34
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Is it worth persevering with the hearing aid?
Enquiry: Balancing hearing aid with CI. I am wondering how does this work and what should be done to make this work. Currently I am not wearing a hearing aid in my other ear cos one I have a problem with the ear mould and second, I can't hear alot on that side. I find also that if I wear CI alone, I hear alot better with it for environmental sounds as then I pick up some of the finer quieter sounds which I dont seem to notice from the CI when I have my heari...
Posted on February 5, 2010 17:46
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Is a hearing aid enough?
Enquiry: My daughter has had an implant for two years now and has always worn a hearing aid in the other ear. I am concerned that she does not get enough benefit from the hearing aid and would like her to have a second implant but the implant centre say that she does not fit the criteria. Reply: The NICE report recognises that “some children who have previously received unilateral implants may now be considered to have met...
Posted on February 2, 2010 17:59
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Imbalance between the cochlear implant and the hearing aid
Enquiry: Having worn hearing aids in both ears as a result of profound deafness all my life I have had a CI in my right ear now for 7 months. I have continued to wear hearing aid in my left ear since, but now i am noticing a more "imbalance" between the two ears. My hearing aid is more like very bass meaningless boom boom boom and the CI more like meaningless squawk squawk of a higher pitch. People have told me to keep the hearing aid in for stimul...
Posted on October 17, 2008 14:53
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Using radio aids with an implant and a hearing aid.
Enquiry: I work with a student who wears a Nucleus Freedom cochlear implant as well as a Spirit 3SP. Is there any research to show the benefit of using an fm system with the Spirit 3SP as well as with her implant. I was wondering whether you were aware of any evidence based research that would support or reject the idea that CI and hearing aid fm systems can be used beneficially together Reply: There is research which shows that the bilat...
Posted on July 18, 2008 17:43
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How much to use the new implant by itself?
Enquiry : I am currently working with a 5yr old boy recently implanted. He also wears 1 hearing aid. I visit 4 times a week for listening rehab sessions etc. At the moment I am working implant only for these sessions. He wears his implant and aid in class. His mum is also using implant only for much of his time at home. Is this the correct approach? After discussion with other professionals I am wondering whether we should be following this approach or working ...
Posted on May 29, 2008 16:45