Language: English. Yvonne Havers from the Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation Centers explains how children with a CI develop and what kind and quality of outcomes can be expected when they undergo proper rehabilitation. The Cochlear Implant Center Friedberg, Germany is very experienced in the field of rehabiliation of CI Children. This presentation was given at the first monsana conference in St. Petersburg in May 2009. See also www.monsana.net/firstconference

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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
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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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