Subject: Postlingual cochlear implant: a training method that worked in an N=1 design From: Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 10:26:42 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3416639204_891721 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello CI folks, At an informal gathering I met a gentleman who told me about his 38-year old son-in-law losing his hearing after a car going > 60 mph hit him on his bicycle. It was a miracle that he survived but he suffered major concussion, memory loss, and shortly after the event also his hearing, bilaterally. He slowly recovered his cognitive functions but not his hearing. After 4 years of trying to get by with lip reading alone, he got a cochlear implant. As it is the case for many adult CI patients whose loss was not congenital, he did hear sounds but had difficulty understanding speech. So, he trained himself by watching foreign films on DVD that had an original non-English track with subtitles and also a dubbed English track: he set the video on the subtitled track and the audio on the English track. Within a few months of using this training method, his speech understanding improved to a point that was considered essentially perfect by himself and his entourage. Although the story is obviously not scientific, I thought it would be found interesting by some of you reading the list. -Pierre --B_3416639204_891721 Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: s= pace; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:= 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hello CI folks,</div><div><b= r></div><div>At an informal gathering I met a gentleman who told me about hi= s 38-year old son-in-law losing his hearing after a car going > 60 mph hi= t him on his bicycle. It was a miracle that he survived but he suffered majo= r concussion, memory loss, and shortly after the event also his hearing, bil= aterally. He slowly recovered his cognitive functions but not his hearing. A= fter 4 years of trying to get by with lip reading alone, he got a cochlear i= mplant. As it is the case for many adult CI patients whose loss was not cong= enital, he did hear sounds but had difficulty understanding speech. So, he t= rained himself by watching foreign films on DVD that had an original non-Eng= lish track with subtitles and also a dubbed English track: he set the video = on the subtitled track and the audio on the English track. Within a few mont= hs of using this training method, his speech understanding improved to a poi= nt that was considered essentially perfect by himself and his entourage.</di= v><div><br></div><div>Although the story is obviously not scientific, I thou= ght it would be found interesting by some of you reading the list.</div><div= ><br></div><div>-Pierre</div></body></html> --B_3416639204_891721--