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  • Title: Can Mandarin-speaking prelingual deaf adults benefit from cochlear implant?
    Author: Huang PK, Ho PH, Chu CH, Chen PY, Lin HC.
    Journal: Acta Otolaryngol; 2024 Jan; 144(1):44-51. PubMed ID: 38400594.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: With advances in cochlear implant (CI) technology, prelingual deaf adults may experience improved speech perception and quality of life (QoL). It is still a challenge for Mandarin-speaking CI user with tone recognition due to CI technology focused on intonation language. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the long-term post-CI auditory performance and social-emotional benefits in prelingual deaf Mandarin-speaking adults and the difference between them and post-lingual deaf adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fifty-five adult implanted ears were included (forty-six postlingual deaf group; nine prelingual deaf group). Post-CI long-term outcomes were using vowels, consonants, disyllabic words, Mandarin monosyllable words, categories of audiology performance, speech intelligibility rating, subjective social-emotional questionnaires. RESULTS: Post-CI auditory performance and speech intelligibility of prelingual deafness adults was significantly inferior to that of those with postlingual deafness. However, both groups presented improved social-emotional benefits, with no significant difference between both groups. CONCLUSIONS: Adult CI recipients who deaf before the age of 4 can experience benefits in social-emotional life functioning, regardless of their limited auditory performance and speech intelligibility. Therefore, prelingual Mandarin-speaking deaf adults, especially those using oral communication, can be considered as relative indications for cochlear implantation. SIGNIFICANCE: To clarify and validate the benefits among Mandarin-speaking prelingual deaf adult recipients.
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