The purpose of this study is to evaluate short and long term outcomes (benefits and side-effects) of bilateral cochlear implantation and bilateral hearing aid rehabilitation in Finnish children.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
Multichannel Nucleus cochlear implant
Phonak hearing aid
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Helsinki University Hospital
Helsinki, Finland
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kuopio University Hospital
Kuopio, Finland
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Oulu University Hospital
Oulu, Finland
Tampere University Hospital
Tampere, Finland
Assessment of auditory performance skills of bilaterally or bimodally implanted children or children with bilateral hearing aids
Time frame: Various time points up to 5 years hearing age
To compare post-operative speech perception ability, language acquisition, and speech production
Time frame: Various time points up to 5 years hearing age
To compare speech recognition performance
Time frame: Various time points up to 5 years hearing age
Quality of life and functional communicative performance assessed by parental proxy measures, and health economical assessment
Time frame: Various time points up to 5 years hearing age
To evaluate operative and post-operative complications, side-effects and device failures
Time frame: Various time points up to 5 years hearing age
To evaluate the differences in balance function
Time frame: at 3 and 5 year age
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Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Turku University Hospital
Turku, Finland