Dallas cochlear implant program

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Specifically, they will examine how combinations of cochlear implants and hearing aids influence language development and the ability of patients using these devices to communicate. Johnston Chair in Communication Disorders in Children.

Cochlear implants are electronic devices surgically implanted to bypass the sound receptors in the ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve. For people whose deafness results from damaged or abnormal receptor cells, these devices restore aspects of hearing or even allow them to hear for the first time. But deciding to get a cochlear implant after living with hearing loss for 25 years was not. Schutzenhofer learned to hear with the assistance of her hearing aid and to speak with the help of speech therapy.

She entered a program for children with hearing loss at age 3 and was mainstreamed by the second grade. While a graduate student at Washington University in St.

The yearlong program offers fourth-year doctor of audiology students from across the country hands-on experience working with children and adults with hearing loss.

Under the supervision of Elizabeth Gill, a licensed and certified audiologist, Schutzenhofer conducts hearing evaluations, hearing aid evaluations and hearing aid fittings.