Ten-year follow-up of a consecutive series of children with multichannel cochlear implants.

Objectives: To assess a group of children who consecutively received implants more than 10 years after implantation with regard to speech perception, speech intelligibility, receptive language level, and academic/occupational status.

Study Design: A prospective longitudinal study.

Setting: Pediatric referral center for cochlear implantation.

Cochlear implantation in prelingually deafened children with residual hearing.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the speech perception skills of prelingually deafened French children with preoperative residual hearing who received multichannel cochlear implants.

Design: The design of the study incorporated a within-subject, repeated measures design for assessing speech perception skills.

Setting: Montpellier, Toulouse and Lyon Pediatric Cochlear Implant Centers.