ArticleTrends in hearing2017
Self-Reported Usage, Functional Benefit, and Audiologic Characteristics of Cochlear Implant Patients Who Use a Contralateral Hearing Aid.
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- Unilateral Versus Bilateral Cochlear Implants in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study Across Multiple Hearing Domains.Audiology research · 2025Article
- Differences in consonant confusion patterns between bimodal cochlear implant users with greater and less bimodal advantage.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Frequency importance functions in simulated bimodal cochlear-implant users with spectral holes.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- The Effect of Bimodal Hearing on Postoperative Quality of Life.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2024Article
- Benefits of Bimodal Stimulation to Speech Perception in Noise and Silence.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2023Article
- Integration of fundamental frequency and voice-onset-time to voicing categorization: Listeners with normal hearing and bimodal hearing configurations.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Guidelines for Best Practice in the Audiological Management of Adults Using Bimodal Hearing Configurations.Otology & neurotology open · 2022Article
- Frequency Fitting Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithm in Cochlear Implant Users with Bimodal Binaural Hearing.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Balancing the Loudness in Speech Processors and Contralateral Hearing Aids in Users of Unilateral Cochlear Implants.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2021Article
- Bilateral Cochlear Implants or Bimodal Hearing for Children with Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss.Current otorhinolaryngology reports · 2020Article
- Are There Real-world Benefits to Bimodal Listening?Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology · 2020Article
- Guidelines for Best Practice in the Audiological Management of Adults with Severe and Profound Hearing Loss.Seminars in hearing · 2020Review
- Bimodal Benefits for Lexical Tone Recognition: An Investigation on Mandarin-speaking Preschoolers with a Cochlear Implant and a Contralateral Hearing Aid.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Self-assessment of unilateral and bimodal cochlear implant experiences in daily life.PloS one · 2020Article
- Patient Benefit Following Bimodal CI-provision: Self-reported Abilities vs. Hearing Status.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
- Frequency Following Response and Speech Recognition Benefit for Combining a Cochlear Implant and Contralateral Hearing Aid.Trends in hearingArticle
- The Effect of Hearing Aid Bandwidth and Configuration of Hearing Loss on Bimodal Speech Recognition in Cochlear Implant Users.Ear and hearingArticle
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Abstract
Ninety-four unilateral CI patients with bimodal listening experience (CI plus HA in contralateral ear) completed a questionnaire that focused on attitudes toward hearing aid use postimplantation, patterns of usage, and perceived bimodal benefits in daily life. Eighty participants continued HA use and 14 discontinued HA use at the time of the questionnaire. Participant responses provided useful information for counseling patients both before and after implantation. The majority of continuing bimodal (CI plus HA) participants reported adapting to using both devices within 3 months and also reported that they heard better bimodally in quiet, noisy, and reverberant conditions. They also perceived benefits including improved sound quality, better music enjoyment, and sometimes a perceived sense of acoustic balance. Those who discontinued HA use found either that using the HA did not provide additional benefit over the CI alone or that using the HA degraded the signal from the CI. Because there was considerable overlap in the audiograms and in speech recognition performance in the unimplanted ear between the two groups, we recommend that unilateral CI recipients are counseled to continue to use the HA in the contralateral ear postimplantation in order to determine whether or not they receive functional or perceived benefit from using both devices together.
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