Authors
Tinne Boons, Jan PL Brokx, Johan HM Frijns, Louis Peeraer, Birgit Philips, Anneke Vermeulen, Jan Wouters, Astrid van Wieringen
Publication date
2012/1/2
Journal
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
Volume
166
Issue
1
Pages
28-34
Publisher
American Medical Association
Description
Objective
To examine spoken language outcomes in children undergoing bilateral cochlear implantation compared with matched peers undergoing unilateral implantation.
Design
Case-control, frequency-matched, retrospective cross-sectional multicenter study.
Setting
Two Belgian and 3 Dutch cochlear implantation centers.
Participants
Twenty-five children with 1 cochlear implant matched with 25 children with 2 cochlear implants selected from a retrospective sample of 288 children who underwent cochlear implantation before 5 years of age.
Intervention
Cochlear implantation.
Main Outcome Measures
Performance on measures of spoken language comprehension and expression (Reynell Developmental Language Scales and Schlichting Expressive Language Test).
Results
On the receptive language tests (mean difference [95% CI], 9.4 [0.3-18.6]) and expressive language tests (15.7 [5.9-25.4] and 9.7 [1.5-17.9 …
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