Pediatric cochlear implantation

Cochlear implants are an important advance in the treatment of profoundly deaf children. Regardless of whether the child has congenital or acquired deafness, cochlear implants can provide useful hearing to children who do not receive significant benefit from traditional amplification. Knowledge of the benefits that cochlear implants provide to children continues to unfold and to affect candidate selection. Evidence now shows that early implantation provides children with increased auditory and linguistic benefits. Improvements in implant hardware and coding strategies continue to develop and to be applied to the pediatric population.