Children
- Profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears
- Age 1-18 years
- Receive little or no useful benefit from hearing aids
- No medical contraindications
- High motivation and appropriate expectations
(both child when appropriate and family)
Adults - Postlinguistic
- Severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears
- Hearing loss acquired after learning oral speech and language development
(postlinguistic hearing loss)
- Receive limited benefit from appropriately fit hearing aids;
i.e.,scores of 40% or less on sentence recognition test
in the best-aided listening condition
- No medical contraindications
Adults-Prelinguistic
- Profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears
- Hearing loss acquired before learning speech and language
(prelinguistic hearing loss)
- Receive no benefit from hearing aids
- No medical contraindications
- A desire to be a part of the hearing world
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