Product Description
The second edition of Cochlear Implants provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art techniques for evaluating and selecting the cochlear implant candidate. Clear descriptions of surgical techniques guide the reader through implantation procedures, and chapters address important issues such as speech production, language development, and education in implant recipients. This second edition features: New chapters on the genetics of hearing loss, sound processing, binaural hearing, and electroacoustic stimulation Complete discussion of the most recent advances in evaluation procedures, surgery, programming methods, speech processing strategies, and more Precise, easy-to-follow tables and figures enhance comprehension of the basic science, research and clinical concepts covered in the text Coverage of the medical and surgical complications of cochlear implantation Insights from an interdisciplinary team of experts in otolaryngology, audiology, the basic sciences, speech pathology, and education Ideal for learning and reference, Cochlear Implants synthesizes the key information needed by practitioners, researchers, and students in a range of disciplines. Readers will benefit from both the scope and thoroughness of this authoritative reference.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 2 reviews)

Good for CI veterans, not for students new to CIs by Wandering Mind

2 Stars
February 08, 2009
While this book is excellent for those who already have a background in cochlear implants, it is not a good textbook for those who have not had previous CI coursework. It does not sufficiently explain key fundamental concepts

Read it, but don't believe everything you read by Alison (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

4 Stars
December 19, 2000
As a Speech and Language Therapist working with preschool deaf and partially hearing children, I found this book fascinating reading. I ploughed through its jargon and statistics from cover to cover, wanting to demystify the contents for families. I found out two main things:What the research shows: After any residual hearing in an ear is destroyed during cochlear implant surgery, that implanted ear provides speech understanding, on average, like an ear with a 100-110dB hearing loss (at best, an equivalent of about 77dB hearing loss, at worst no speech perception). Speech intelligibility is also on average like that of a person with a 100-110dB hearing loss. Cochlear implants are therefore, by my reckoning, worth considering for children with hearing losses greater than 110dB. Powerful hearing aids seem to offer about as much speech/language benefit as implants to other profoundly hearing-impaired children.Complications occur in between 1% (according to the first author in Chapter 9, who appears be ignoring his own data) and 10% (according to Article 9D) of implant patients, depending on what you call a complication. Prior to March 1998, data provided by two manufacturers presented indicate a 10.36% complication rate in Clarion implants in children, and a 14.68% complication rate in Nucleus implants in both children and adults. Complications included healing problems, dizziness, pain, facial nerve stimulation, extrusion of the device, migration of the electrode array and electrode array damage. 3% of adults and 4.7% of children with Clarion implants required re-implantation (equivalent Nucleus figures are not quoted). Article 9A reports 'no mortality, meningitis or facial palsies were registered in our series' (p176).The critical period for language-learning appears to be drawing to a close at around age 6. This, I would suggest, allows time for 2-year-old children to try out hearing aids for an extended period, and still get an implant well within the critical period, if hearing aids provide no language benefit.This book is dismissive of sign language, and many authors seem to be trying unconvincingly to substantiate the use of 'oral' education methods. Only one author (in chapter 14) refers to another text which discusses the body of research indicating that natural sign language (e.g. Auslan here in Australia, ASL in the US) actually assists deaf children with their oral language and literacy skill development.Article 12B discusses a 1996 parent survey in the US and Canada, which was sent to 2626 parents of children with cochlear implants, with 1008 replies. 49.3 of the children still using their implants (9 children were not) were enrolled full-time in mainstream classes; 25% were in special classes for hearing-impaired children. 75.3% were in the same class level as other children their own age. The other 24.7% of children had school delays from 1-6 years, averaging 1.5 years. 53.1% of children used auditory/spoken language as their primary means of communication.What the book says the research shows: A lot of the book's research into language outcomes of cochlear implants is poorly designed and controlled, uses questionable measures (e.g. speech perception tests done in an audiology suite, but no information about a child's actual communication skills at home or at preschool) and inflated 'improvement/growth/rate of learning' figures rather than children's actual test scores. These design flaws are generally glossed over or dismissed e.g. 'The usual confounding issues of device/strategy, age at implantation and length of deafness did exist' (p204). The large quantity of badly designed research proves very little, but there are a few delightful 'findings' such as 'children in both the early CI and late CI groups identified lexically easy words with significantly greater accuracy than lexically hard words (P

SIMILAR PRODUCTS

	Balance Function Assessment and Management by Gary P. (Author), Ph.D. Jacobson (Author), Neil Shepard (Author), Ph.D (Author) This book comprehensively covers the assessment and treatment of balance system impairments. Designed to be used in graduate programs in audiology, and by practicing audiologists, it is also appropriate for those in the fields of physical therapy, otolaryngology, and neurology. Assessment chapters address ocular motility testing, positional/positioning testing, caloric testing, rotational testing, computerized dynamic posturography, and vestibular evoked potentials. Treatment chapters cover...
	Pediatric Audiology, Book and DVD: Diagnosis, Technology and Management by Jane Madell (Editor), Carol Flexer (Editor) Pediatric Audiology is a practical "how-to" reference for the diagnosis and technological and educational management of infants and children with hearing disorders. Master clinicians distill decades of expertise, providing step-by-step descriptions of testing and treatment protocols, with a special emphasis on specific pediatric behavioral assessment techniques, such as behavioral observation audiometry. A DVD-ROM accompanying the text features videos of the various pediatric behavioral...
	Cochlear Implants: A Practical Guide by Huw Cooper (Author), Louise Craddock (Author) This is a comprehensive multi-author handbook covering all aspects of cochlear implantation, fully updated since its first edition was published in 1991. All aspects of this rapidly developing field are covered, from implant design, speech processing strategies, assessment and rehabilitation of children and adults to future developments. Chapters written by implant users and their parents give fascinating insight into the experience of hearing again with a cochlear implant.
	Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, Adults, and Their Family Members by Nancy Tye-Murray (Author) We proudly present the new third edition of Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, Adults, and Their Family Members, one of our most successful and widely used texts for audiologists and speech-language pathologists. A readable, comprehensive resource, it covers topics such as identification and diagnosis of hearing and other hearing-related communication challenges, patient and family counseling, selection and fitting of listening devices, communication training, literacy promotion,...
	Clinical Applications of the Auditory Brainstem Response (Singular Audiology Textbook) by Linda J. Hood (Author) Focusing on the auditory brainstem response (ABR) and its applications in evaluating neural disorders and hearing sensitivity, Clinical Applications of the Auditory Brainstem Response is an essential tool for every audiologist. This practical, hands-on manual provides the information necessary to understand the bases for and applications of the auditory brainstem response in clinical practice, presenting substantive, valuable information on both performance and interpretation of the measures.