A cochlear implant (CI) program in South Carolina has demonstrated how strategic workflow design, data-driven efficiency measures, and team-based care can dramatically expand access, improve patient satisfaction, and sustain rapid program growth in an underserved region.
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital are participating in a Cochlear Americas’-sponsored clinical trial for an implantable hearing device in children 5 to 11 years of age who have been born with hearing loss that may be caused by craniofacial abnormalities.
With AutoSense OS 3.0, Naída CI Marvel helps deliver “excellent sound quality and performance in a variety of situations throughout the day.”
Dennis Van Vliet recently attended the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIA) conference and was reminded that “stepping out of the silo of work that I do every day into another, but related, realm is important to broaden my understanding of the larger discipline.”
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The conference was organized by the American Cochlear Implant (ACI) Alliance and supported by the UHealth Ear Institute and other academic and private sector organizations.
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Children currently receive the same type of cochlear implant programming as adults even though a child’s ability to process speech information and discriminate pitch is much less developed.
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With a better understanding of cortical brain changes associated with hearing loss, the potential to develop objective brain-based tools (ie, biomarkers) increases. These tools may help clinicians determine when a patient should receive intervention, what kind of intervention or rehabilitation would be ideal, and may offer the ability to monitor how well a chosen intervention or rehabilitation method is working. Prominent researchers Anu Sharma and Hannah Glick explain why.
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CI 2018 will take place March 7-10, 2018 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, NW, Washington, DC.
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In a new, multisite study of deaf children with cochlear implants, University of Texas at Dallas researchers have found that children with either no exposure or limited exposure to sign language end up with better auditory, speaking, and reading skills later.
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The American Cochlear Implant (ACI) Alliance released a set of resources about cochlear implants in honor of Better Hearing and Speech Month.
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed a bill to reauthorize federal newborn hearing screening programs for the next five years, the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) announced. The ACI Alliance is a nonprofit organization that advocates for improved access for cochlear implants.
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A new study at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center seeks to better understand how children with cochlear implants learn words, and researchers are using a high-tech approach to get answers, according to a February 27, 2017 post on Ohio State’s blog.
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Call for papers for the 15th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children (CI2017), which will be held July 26-29, 2017 in San Francisco, Calif. The CI2017 Symposium is considered the premier cochlear implant meeting in 2017.
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