Classroom performance of children with cochlear implants in mainstream education.

Objectives: We compared classroom performance of children with a cochlear implant (CI) with that of their normal-hearing peers in mainstream education.

Methods: Thirty-two CI children in mainstream education, congenitally or prelingually deaf, participated in this study, as did 37 hearing classmates. Their teachers filled out 2 questionnaires: the Assessment of Mainstream Performance (AMP) and the Screening Instrument for Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER).