Audiology Research Update

In issue 2, 2006 of Loud and Clear, a newsletter of Advanced Bionics Corporation, Amy McConkey Robbins states that “both children using oral only communication (OC) and those using oral plus signing communication (TC) improve in their communication skills after [cochlear] implantation, but OC children outperform TC children on most measures of auditory speech perception, speech production, and language.”

Issue 2, 2006 of Loud and Clear (PDF) is available here.