Evolution of Pediatric Cochlear Implantation

*Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; †Lillian S Wells Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; ‡Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; and §Vice President for Science and Research, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Karen Iler Kirk, Ph.D., Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, The University of Iowa; and Vice President for Science and Research, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Rockville, MD; E-mail: [email protected] The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders provided partial funding for the conference and the publication of this special issue (Grant No. R13 DC009938). The authors disclose no conflicts of interest.