Anneke Vermeulen

Pento Audiological Centres · Apeldoorn The Netherlands

The reading comprehension and visual word recognition in 50 deaf children and adolescents with at least 3 years of cochlear implant (CI) use were evaluated. Their skills were contrasted with reference data of 500 deaf children without CIs. The reading comprehension level in children with CIs was expected to surpass that in deaf children without imp...

Background: Impaired auditory speech perception abilities in deaf children with hearing aids compromised their verbal intelligence enormously. The availability of unilateral cochlear implantation (CI) auditory speech perception and spoken vocabulary enabled them to reach near ageappropriate levels. This holds especially for children in spoken lang...

Objectives: The data logs of Cochlear Nucleus cochlear implant (CI) sound processors show large interindividual variation in children's daily CI use and auditory environments. This study explored whether these differences are associated with differences in the receptive vocabulary of young implanted children. Design: Data of 52 prelingually deaf...

In the Western world, for deaf and hard-of-hearing children, hearing aids or cochlear implants are available to provide access to sound, with the overall goal of increasing their wellbeing. If and how this goal is achieved becomes increasingly multifarious when these children reach adolescence and young adulthood and start to participate in society...

Objectives: We aimed to determine whether children with severe hearing loss (HL) who use hearing aids (HAs) may experience added value in the perception of speech, language development, and executive function (EF) compared to children who are hard of hearing (HH) or children who are deaf and who use cochlear implants (CIs) and would benefit from C...

We investigated 34 deaf and hard-of-hearing children with hearing devices aged 8-12 years and 30 typical hearing peers. We used the capability approach to assess well-being in both groups through interviews. Capability is "the real freedom people have to do and to be what they have reason to value." Speech perception, phonology, and receptive vocab...

Introduction Healthcare services, such as cochlear implants and subsequent rehabilitation, aim to increase valuable activities and opportunities of those affected. Their impact may be inferred from the extent that they protect or restore capability, which reflects the real freedoms that people have to be or do things they have reason to value. Capa...

This manuscript is written as a supplement on the occasion of the NVSST symposium‘to hear or not to hear’, 1 March 2019. With a cochlear implant (CI), the speech perception abilities in quiet of severely hearing-impaired and deaf children have considerably improved. In unfavorable listening situations, the hearing abilities remain still limited. In...

Objectives Communicative disorders can complicate social interactions and may be detrimental for one's self-concept. This study aims to assess the self-concept of children with Cochlear Implants (CI). Results of educational peer groups (special needs or typical) were compared. Correlations amongst speech perception, language comprehension, self-con...

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Introduction: The main idea underlying this paper is that impairments such as deafness are particularly relevant to the extent that they lead to deprivation of capability. Likewise, the impact of healthcare services such as cochlear implants and subsequent rehabilitation can best be inferred from the extent that they protect or restore capability o...

Background: Internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems were frequently reported in profoundly hearing-impaired (HI) children with hearing aids. Due to the positive effect of cochlear implants (CIs) on hearing and language development, a positive effect on behavioral problems was expected. However, there is no consensus about the frequency...

The aim of this study was to compare the personality traits of adolescents with cochlear implants (CIs) to a reference group (normal-hearing peers). In the past, the personality development of hearing impaired adolescents was severely compromised. Improved speech perception with CI significantly increased their perspectives. In addition, difference...

The aim of this study is to assess the role of bilateral/bimodal device use in auditory speech perception in complex listening situations and long-term verbal cognition in deaf children using cochlear implants (CIs). Two groups of children are compared (unilateral and bilateral device users) concerning vocabulary, speech perception at conversationa...

This study retrospectively evaluates the effect of newborn hearing screening on age at diagnosis, age at cochlear implantation and spoken language development in severely hearing-impaired children. Age at diagnosis, age at cochlear implantation and language development were evaluated in a group of early screened (n = 149) and a group of late screen...

Although deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) are able to develop good language skills, the large variability in outcomes remains a significant concern. The first aim of this study was to evaluate language skills in children with CIs to establish benchmarks. The second aim was to make an estimation of the optimal age at implantation to provid...

Auditory perception with cochlear implants (CIs) enables the majority of deaf children with normal learning potential to develop (near) age-appropriate spoken language. As a consequence, a large proportion of children now attend mainstream education from an early stage. The acoustical environment in kindergartens and schools, however, might be detr...

To examine spoken language outcomes in children undergoing bilateral cochlear implantation compared with matched peers undergoing unilateral implantation. Case-control, frequency-matched, retrospective cross-sectional multicenter study. Two Belgian and 3 Dutch cochlear implantation centers. Twenty-five children with 1 cochlear implant matched with...

This paper reports the results of two studies of reading comprehension of Flemish children in Belgium. In the northern part of Belgium (Flanders), Dutch is the official language. The Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Flanders are called Flemish. Dutch is also the national language of the Netherlands. Despite both groups using Dutch, cultural difference...

To investigate the speech perception performance of children with a cochlear implant (CI) after 3 and 4 years of follow-up and to study the influence of age at implantation, duration of deafness and communication mode on the variability in speech perception performance. A broad battery of speech perception tests was administered to 67 children with...

To evaluate the long-term outcome of children with postmeningitic deafness and partial insertion of the Nucleus electrode array, and to compare their speech perception performance with that of children with full insertion of the electrode array. A battery of seven speech perception tests was administered to 25 children with a cochlear implant (CI)....

Oral language development of ten children, prelingually deafened by meningitis, was assessed with a Dutch version of the Reynell Developmental Language Scales. The test was administered pre-operatively and at regular intervals after implantation. The average rate of language development between two consecutive evaluations was computed. This rate wa...

To evaluate the results of cochlear implantation in deaf children. Descriptive. Ear, nose and throat department, Academic Hospital, Nijmegen, and Institute for the Deaf St. Michielsgestel, the Netherlands. The results in 29 totally deaf children implanted with a 22-channel Nucleus implant--partly in a project supported by the National Fund for Inve...

Basal auditory functions and early verbal communication skills were examined in young, profoundly deaf children with hearing aids or a cochlear implant. The hearing aid users (n = 23) were subdivided on the basis of their (unaided) hearing thresholds into: group A (pure tone average (PTA) at 0.5, 1 and 2 kHz: 90-100 dB HL); group B (PTA: 100-110 dB...

Objective. Evaluation of the effect of cochlear implantation in children who have had meningitis.Materials and methods. The children were tested before implantation with their conventional hearing aids and after implantation at regular intervals with their implant. Audiometry, auditory speech perception tests and the Reynell Developmental Language...

To determine the speech perception of children with cochlear implants. Speech perception results of seven children with cochlear implants (excellent performers), who showed stable speech recognition scores in the long term, were compared with those of severely hearing-impaired children with conventional hearing aids (reference group). The groups of...

The relation between age at cochlear implantation and long-term open-set speech recognition was studied in a group of nine congenitally deaf children. The age at cochlear implant surgery ranged from 4 to 13 years. The results showed that there was a tendency toward poorer results in the children implanted at a relatively older age. However, the res...

A new measure has been developed to quantify the speech perception performance of children with a cochlear implant (CI). The method summarizes the speech perception scores obtained on a battery of tests that ranges from very basal tasks up to open speech recognition. The overall performance of a child with a CI on the test battery at a certain time...

In a previous paper, a method was introduced to transform the results obtained by children with a cochlear implant (CI) on a battery of speech perception tests into an overall value, the "equivalent hearing loss" value. This was achieved by matching the speech perception test scores with those of a reference group of children with conventional hear...

The issue of whether an upper age limit should be set for cochlear implantation in congenitally deaf subjects has often been debated. To gain more insight, the speech perception abilities were analyzed of 12 congenitally deaf subjects whose age at the time of cochlear implantation ranged from 4 to 33 years. Subjects implanted during adulthood only...

It has frequently been found that profoundly deaf children with conventional hearing aids have difficulties with the comprehension of written text. Cochlear Implants (CIs) were expected to enhance the reading comprehension of these profoundly deaf children because they provide auditory access to spoken language. This research showed that profoundly...