This project is being conducted to investigate individual differences in the effects of AT on speech recognition and bottom-up and top-down processing in CI users.  The long-term goal of this project is to provide a knowledge-base upon which AT can be effectively tailored to individuals, thus optimizing outcomes for adult CI users. In order to accomplish this goal, the project investigates four primary research questions: (1) What are the effects of AT on speech recognition; (2) What underlying speech processing skills contribute to changes in speech recognition; (3) Do underlying speech processing skills change as a result of AT; and (4) Do baseline speech recognition and speech processing skills contribute to the required duration of AT that leads to improvement.

Language and Cognition in Adults with Cochlear Implants (Moberly)
The aim of this study is to examine the auditory, linguistic, and cognitive factors that contribute to variability in speech recognition outcomes for adults with cochlear implants. Understanding these sources of variability should help us to predict outcomes preoperatively and to explain why some individuals do not perform well with an implant. 

 

Moberly AC, Vasil KJ, & Ray C. (2019). Visual reliance during speech recognition in cochlear implant users and candidates, Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, in press.

Moberly AC, Vasil KJ, Baxter JH, Ray C. (2018). What to do when cochlear implant users plateau in performance: a pilot study of clinician-guided aural rehabilitation. Otology & Neurotology;39:e794-e802.

Moberly AC, Harris MS, Boyce L, Vasil K, Wucinich T, Pisoni DB, Baxter J, Ray C, Shafiro V. (2018). Relating quality of life to outcomes and predictors in adult cochlear implant users: Are we measuring the right things? Laryngoscope, 128(4):959-966.

Moberly AC, Bates C, Boyce L, Vasil K, Wucinich T, Baxter J, Ray C. (2017). Computerized rehabilitative training in older adult cochlear implant users: a feasibility study. Journal of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology, 50, 13-27.

Ray, C. (2017). Team hearing. ASHA Leader, (8), 36-38. doi:10.1044/leader.AE.22082017.36

 

Assistant Professor- Clinical
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Otology, Neurotology and  Cranial Base Surgery
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center