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Optimizing Performance in Adult Cochlear Implant Users Through Clinician Directed Auditory Training

Overview
Journal Semin Hear
Specialty Otorhinolaryngology
Date 2016 Sep 3
PMID 27587916
Citations 10
Authors
Geoff Plant
Claire Marcus Bernstein
Harry Levitt
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Abstract

Clinician-directed auditory training using the KTH Speech Tracking Procedure can be a powerful approach for maximizing outcomes with adult cochlear implant (CI) users. This article first reviews prior research findings from an 8-week clinician-directed auditory training (AT) program using speech tracking that yielded significant gains in speech tracking rate and sentence recognition scores following training. The second focus of the article is to illustrate the value of intensive face-to-face long-term AT using speech tracking with adult CI users. A detailed case study report is presented that demonstrates major ongoing and progressive gains in tracking rate, sentence recognition, and improvements in self-perceived competence and confidence over the course of intensive long-term training. Given the potential of both short- and long-term clinician-directed auditory training via KTH speech tracking to help CI users reach their optimal performance level, consideration for more widespread clinical use is proposed in the overall rehabilitation of adult CI users.

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