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Current Research of Pediatric Ear Surgery and Cochlear Implantation
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Current Research of Pediatric Ear Surgery and Cochlear Implantation

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2022) | Viewed by 2034

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Saba Battelino

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Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery, Ljubljana University Medical Centre | UMC, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: cochlear implants; familly genetics of hearing loss; cochlear malformations and genetics; progressive hearing loss; Sy Usher, surgery of hearing loss
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Dear Colleagues,

Cochlear implantation has revolutionized the treatment and prognosis of children with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss who receive no or limited benefits from hearing aids. Children who receive cochlear implantation at a very young age, particularly before 1.5 years of age, can be expected to reach their normal age-equivalent language developmental milestones and have a higher chance to integrate into the mainstream educational settings. With the positive outcomes after cochlear implantation and the improvements in technology and surgical techniques, candidacy for cochlear implantation in children has been expanding to include hearing-impaired children with significant residual hearing, single-side deafness, severe inner ear malformations, multiple handicaps such as mental retardation or a visual impairment, and auditory neuropathy. Furthermore, there is growing interest in offering bilateral cochlear implantation to provide children with the benefits of binaural hearing. Awareness of early and late post-surgical complications should also not be neglected. As the candidacy criteria expand, cochlear implant programs, including preoperative evaluation, surgery, and habilitation, have become more complex. Therefore, candidates should be selected prudently by a multidisciplinary approach. Cochlear implantation in children is much more successful when provided by an experienced cochlear implant team consisting of experts in relevant fields, achieving the best results. This Special Issue aims to bring together knowledge from different disciplines to allow the integration and a broad view of this multifaceted pathology.

This Special Issue wishes to address changes in pediatric cochlear candidate selection criteria, balance disorders in children with cochlear implants, postoperative evaluation of hearing and cognitive development, cochlear implantation in single-sided deaf children, early and late complications after cochlear implantation in children, algorithms in treating cholesteatomas in children, and the impact of different rehabilitation approaches, especially those with music.

We welcome the submission of original research papers, case reports, short communications, literature reviews, and systematic reviews/metanalyses.

Dr. Saba Battelino
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • cochlear implantation
  • asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss
  • single-sided deafness
  • pediatric balance disorders
  • complications of cochlear implant surgery
  • cochlear implant candidacy
  • multi-handicapped children
  • music
  • pediatric cholesteatoma
  • secretory otitis

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Assessment of Communication Abilities in Four Children with Early Bilateral CIs in Clinical and Home Environments with LENA System: A Case Report
by Arianna Colombani, Amanda Saksida, Sara Pintonello, Federica De Caro and Eva Orzan
Children 2022, 9(5), 659; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9050659 - 4 May 2022
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Children’s language acquisition is underpinned by the quantity and quality of linguistic stimulation. Early diagnosis and cochlear implantation (CI), along with a family-centered intervention, are regarded as critical factors in providing appropriate language stimulation and thus supporting successful language outcomes in children with [...] Read more.
Children’s language acquisition is underpinned by the quantity and quality of linguistic stimulation. Early diagnosis and cochlear implantation (CI), along with a family-centered intervention, are regarded as critical factors in providing appropriate language stimulation and thus supporting successful language outcomes in children with sensory neural hearing loss (SNHL). Considering the lack of tools to assess early language skills and open issues regarding the early predictors of CI outcomes, our goal was to evaluate the potential usability of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system as an early assessment and/or predictive tool. Clinical video recordings, LENA home recordings, and vocabulary scores were used to assess the progression of communication abilities of four children with CIs (6–35 m.o.). The data revealed a positive correlation between the estimated mean length of utterance (EMLU), vocal conversational turns (CT) in clinical video recordings, and receptive vocabulary, as well as the CT count in LENA being a significant predictor of productive vocabulary. These findings lead us to conclude that the LENA system has the potential to be used as an additional (tele-)measure in the early assessment of communication abilities of children with CI, as well as as a tool in the research of early predictors of CI outcomes. Full article
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