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Rehabilitation of children with CI
possible outcomes
Yvonne Havers
Cochlear Implant Centrum Rhein - Main
Friedberg, Germany
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Girl: Pauline Burkhardt
Age at videotaping: 13 years
prelingual deaf (>90dB)
First fitting: 7,5 years
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} Different aspects:
Age of implantation
Bilateral cochlear implantation
Migration background
Children with additional impairements
Children with hearing impaired parents
Educational placement
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Bilateral CI (n= 171)
March 2009
35
30
25
20
ad ults
15 children
10
5
0
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
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Children without additional disabilities or migration background (n= 244)
25%
38%
7%
30%
Main stream School for hearing im paired
Integration Early support
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Children with foreign family-language
March 2009 (n= 103)
Turkish
Arabian
30% 49% serbisch
pakistanisch
1% marokkanisch
5% Italian
5% 3% 7%
Others
Spoken Languages in CIC: 19
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17%
25%
12%
16%
13%
learning cognitive body behavior eyes multiple
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Children of hearing impaired parents
Children of hearing parents
98%
2%
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But they do depend on
§ UNHS
§ Duration of deafness
§ Cause for deafness
§ Duration of HA support
§ Status of hearing nerve
§ Good working technical support
§ Mono- or bilateral support
§ Support by the parents
§ Education style
§
Important!
Regular Rehabilitation with professional support
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} Why do these children have got a good chance to
get into language?
} Importance of parental/ family support
} Parents have to becom e real specialists for their
own children
} That s why parents always have to join: Directly or
by television
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School Parents
Therapist
Others Early support
Child
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therpist
Life or via live online rooms
parents child
Early support school others
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