Efficacy of An Aural Rehabliltation Intervention with Adult Cochlear Implant Users

Authors

  • Dr. Anitha S  Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering ACSCE Bangalore, Karnataka, India
  • Sanjana Chavan  Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, ACSCE Bangalore, Karnataka, India
  • Noorena A Khazi  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, ACSCE Bangalore, Karnataka, India
  • Hemanth Kumar G  Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering ACSCE Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Keywords:

Cochlear Implant, Aural Rehabilitation, Auditory Training, Rehabilitation Program, Speech Recognition Ability

Abstract

Cochlear implants are small electronic devices that allow people to hear sounds. A cochlear implant can help a person with very little or no natural hearing ability. The number of people who use cochlear implant keeps growing. More than 3,24,200 people across the world use cochlear implants. 40 percent of children who are born profoundly deaf now receive a cochlear implant, which is a 25 percent increase from 5 years ago according to a survey conducted in 2014. The main idea of this paper is to evaluate up to what extent intervention of aural rehabilitation (AR) can improve outcomes for adult cochlear implant users. The AR protocolswill include auditory training, communication strategies training and informational counselling. The proposed paper will examine whether an aural rehabilitation program consisting of auditory training (combining top-down/synthetic and bottom-up/analytic approaches) in the above-mentioned criteria can significantly improve the speech recognition abilities and psychosocial outcomes of post lingually deafened adult cochlear implant users.

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2020-03-05

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Volume 5, Issue 5, March-April-2020

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Dr. Anitha S, Sanjana Chavan, Noorena A Khazi, Hemanth Kumar G "Efficacy of An Aural Rehabliltation Intervention with Adult Cochlear Implant Users" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 5, Issue 5, pp.31-37, March-April-2020.