[PDF] Top 20 Quality of life and cochlear implant: results in adults with postlingual hearing loss

... 18 and 60 years of age; having finished high school as the minimum level of school- ing; hearing impairment acquired after the oral language development (post-lingual) and time of ... See full document

... best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to compare masticatory function and perceptions of OHRQoL in treated adult subjects with congenital or acquired major loss ... See full document

... difference in the appearance of the illocutionary stage and the locutionary stages for Akiko and the research reported on normally hearing ...lack of reliable auditory input for ... See full document

... patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 remains a difficult ...isfactory results have currently been attained in the treatment of this disease, and patients have become more concerned ... See full document

... registered in the linguistics structures studied, comparing implanted children and standard, was: phonology, ...tests of semantics, there was no significant ...tests of morpho-syntactic ... See full document

... signal in the opposite ear. For normal hearing listeners, contralateral masking results in masking patterns that are both sharper and dramatically smaller in mag- nitude than ... See full document

... decades, cochlear implantation has been fully proven as the treatment for profound hearing ...stimulation of the spiral ganglion hair cells through the electrode inserted in the ... See full document

... perception of adults with cochlear implant using the Munich Music Questionnaire ...research with a quantitative approach, approved by the institution’s Research Ethics Committee ... See full document

... listeners’ and CI users’ possibly differing perceptual strategies. In this respect, it was found that Speaker 2’s emotions were notably recognized worse in comparison to the other speakers’ by NH ... See full document

... perception of adults with cochlear implant using the Munich Music Questionnaire ...research with a quantitative approach, approved by the institution’s Research Ethics Committee ... See full document

... VEP and behavioral results that we describe are strongly indicative of visual cross-modal re-organization in adults with mild-moderate hearing ...reports of ... See full document

... positive results on the generalization tests involving a different auditory frequency indicate that CIs are able to provide users with suffi cient hearing sensitivity to discriminate words in ... See full document

... recruited in a waiting room of pediatric service accredited by the SUS, in ...years of chronological age were included, without hearing loss ...audiometry in a soundproof ... See full document

... Quality of life as a term looks at all aspects of life together, on the assumption that all are interconnected and also affected by and connected to all parts of ... See full document

... site of hearing loss after bacterial meningitis, 14 with support from histological studies, 15–17 due to hair cell destruction and decreased number of spiral ganglion ... See full document

... dizziness, and fainting), particularly during physical exercises such as running or climbing stairs [ 1 ...feelings of exclusion may result from a lack of stamina, they also may be due to the beliefs ... See full document

... impact of neck pain on quality of life in a population sample of adults aged 20 years or ...total of 600 individuals were interviewed and the following data ... See full document

... o implante coclear em crianças. In: Bevilacqua MC, Moret ALM, organizadores. Deficiência auditiva. Conversando com familiares e profissionais de saúde. São José dos Campos: Pulso; 2005. p. 123-37. 3. Grieco-calub ... See full document

... wave of a population- based cohort study carried out in Salvador, Northeastern ...collected in household visits using ...self-reported hearing loss: Q1, “Do you feel you have a ... See full document

... place of the family as a relational center and locus of social support for the oldest individuals, this study revealed a higher prevalence rate of high PQOL among participants who expected to ... See full document