Volume :

4

Issue :

1

Abstract :

There is a continuing growth in the number of cochlear implant (CI) recipients who have some amount of usable residual acoustic hearing in at least one ear. Many such recipients obtain perceptual benefits from the use of hearing aid (HA) in the contralateral ear. The present study aimed to assess the benefits of bimodal stimulation (i.e. CI in one ear and HA in the contralateral ear) in children as a function of the level of contralateral residual acoustic hearing and auditory experience with bimodal stimulation. Speech recognition performance was evaluated in quiet and noisy environments under monaural CI alone and bimodal CI+HA listening conditions. The results revealed that there was a significant effect of noise on speech recognition performance. There was a significant reduction (p