Advances over recent years have made the cochlear implant the most successful neural prosthetic in history. Whereas early devices provided little more than an awareness of environmental sound and an aid to speechreading (lip reading), many current users display nearly perfect sentence recognition and can even use the telephone. The advances allowing such performance involve an increased understanding of (a) the development of speech recognition in children, (b) the nature of acoustic speech cues and their use by adults, and (c) the physiology of the impaired cochlea and its electrical stimulation. This course will describe these advances as they relate to modern cochlear implants. This course examines how these discoveries affect and guide the development of models of speech perception and central auditory processing.

Instructors include:

Susan Nittrouer, PhD, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Eric W. Healy, PhD, Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University