Inferences and metaphoric comprehension in unilaterally implanted children with adequate formal oral language performance.

Objectives: To assess skills in inferences during conversations and in metaphors comprehension of unilaterally cochlear implanted children with adequate abilities at the formal language tests, comparing them with well-matched hearing peers; to verify the influence of age of implantation on overall skills.

Methods: The study was designed as a matched case-control study. 31 deaf children, unilateral cochlear implant users, with normal linguistic competence at formal language tests were compared with 31 normal hearing matched peers.

One-year results of the banded neural response imaging study.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between single-channel and banded neural response imaging (NRI) responses and to evaluate whether banded NRI measurements are better correlated to fitting parameters than single-channel NRI measurements.

Patients: Nineteen profoundly deaf subjects implanted with a HiRes 90K cochlear implant from Advanced Bionics Corporation (Valencia, CA).

Intervention(s): Neural response imaging thresholds (tNRIs; single-channel and banded tNRIs) were measured intraoperatively; at first fitting; and after 3, 6, and 12 months of implant use.