Outcomes in paediatric patients undergoing stapedotomy.

Objectives: This study aimed to describe outcomes of paediatric stapes surgery at an academic tertiary care centre.

Methods: Electronic medical records of patients younger than 21 years who underwent stapedotomy between September 2013 and July 2020 were reviewed.

Results: A total of 17 patients (7 male, 10 female) were included in our study; 14 underwent surgery on one ear while 3 underwent surgery on both ears (20 ears total).

A visual or tactile signal makes auditory speech detection more efficient by reducing uncertainty.

Acoustic speech is easier to detect in noise when the talker can be seen. This finding could be explained by integration of multisensory inputs or refinement of auditory processing from visual guidance. In two experiments, we studied two-interval forced-choice detection of an auditory 'ba' in acoustic noise, paired with various visual and tactile stimuli that were identically presented in the two observation intervals.