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This book will move the field of pediatric cochlear implantation forward by educating clinicians in the field as to current and emerging best practices and inspiring research in new areas of importance, including the relationship between cognitive processing and pediatric cochlear implant outcomes. The book discusses communication practices, including sign language for deaf children with cochlear implants and the role of augmentative/alternative communication for children with multiple disabilities. Focusing exclusively on cochlear implantation as it applies to the pediatric population, this book also discusses music therapy, minimizing the risk of meningitis in pediatric implant recipients, recognizing device malfunction and failure in children, perioperative anesthesia and analgesia considerations in children, and much more.

Cochlear Implants in Childre n is aimed at clinicians, including neurotologists, pediatric otolaryngologists, audiologists and speech-language pathologists, as well as clinical scientists and educators of the deaf. The book is also appropriate for pre-and postdoctoral students, including otolaryngology residents and fellows in Neurotology and Pediatric Otolaryngology.

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Part I: Introduction.- Cochlear Implant Design Considerations.- Part 2: Clinical Management.- Cochlear Implant Candidacy in Children: Audiological Considerations.- Vaccines and the Chochlear Implant Patient.- Medical and Radiologic Issues in Pediatric Cochlear Implantation.- Surgical Considerations.- Cochlear Implant Programming for Children.- Diagnosis and Management of Cochlear Implant Malfunctions.- The Role of Electrophysiological Testing in Pediatric Cochlear Implantation.- Part 3: Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Children.- Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition in Children with Cochlear Implants.- Binaural an Spatial Hearing in Implanted Children.- Language and Literacy Skills in Cochlear Implants: Past and Present Findings.- Benefits of Cochlear Implantation on the Whole Child: Longitudinal Changes in Cognition, Behavior, Parenting and Health-Related Quality of Life.- Part 4: Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Special Populations.- Redefining Cochlear Implant Benefits to Appropriately Include Children with Additional Disabilities.- Cochlear Nerve Deficiency.- The Neuroscience of The Pediatric Auditory Brainstem Implant.- Cochlear Implants as Treatment of Single-sided Deafness in Children.- Part 5: Maximizing Cochlear Implant Outcomes Learning.- Elementary Cognitive Processes Underlying Verbal Working Memory in Pre-lingually Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants.- Working Memory Training in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants.- Auditory Training: Predictors of Success and Optimal Training Paradigms.- Integrated Language Intervention for Children with Hearing Loss.- Music as Communication and Training fort Children with Cochlear Implants.- Part 6: Educational Management of Children with Cochlear Implants.- Early Intervention Programs: Therapy Needs of Children Ages 0-3 Years Pre and Post Cochlear Implantation.

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Nancy M. Young, MDLillian S Wells Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineHead, Section of Otolology and Neurotology, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children´s Hospital of ChicagoFellow, Knowles Hearing Center, Northwestern University School of CommunicationILUSA Karen Iler KirkShahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor and HeadDepartment of Speech and Hearing ScienceUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignILUSA

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