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Early Cochlear Implant Use

Description

This observational study will examine newly activated cochlear implant users and determine whether their abilities to discern simple sounds change and relate to improved speech perception. Take-home computers and test-equipment will be sent home, and subjects will complete approximately 25 test sessions over the first 3 months of cochlea implant use. Then, subjects will be tested 3 more times in the laboratory until 1 year-post activation. The primary objective is to determine and quantify how sounds change and speech perception improves over the course of early cochlear implant use.

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This observational study will examine newly activated cochlear implant users and determine whether their abilities to discern simple sounds change and relate to improved speech perception. Take-home computers and test-equipment will be sent home, and subjects will complete approximately 25 test sessions over the first 3 months of cochlea implant use. Then, subjects will be tested 3 more times in the laboratory until 1 year-post activation. The primary objective is to determine and quantify how sounds change and speech perception improves over the course of early cochlear implant use.

Early Cochlear Implant Use

Early Cochlear Implant Use

Condition
Cochlear Implant Users
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

New York

NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, United States, 10016

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Postlingually deaf cochlear implant users
  • 2. severe or profound hearing loss
  • 3. who do not have other diagnoses communicative or cognitive disorders.
  • 4. Test population: no prior experience with cochlear implants (recruitment happens prior to cochlear implantation).
  • 5. Control population: subjects who have used the same stimulation strategy since initial stimulation, who note no continuing improvements or changes with their devices with respect to speech comprehension.
  • 1. Diagnosed cognitive or communicative disorders (other than deafness)
  • 2. Below 18 years of age
  • 3. Above the age of 85 years old.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 85 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

NYU Langone Health,

Mario A. Svirsky, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, NYU Langone Health

Study Record Dates

2027-07-01