Geoff Plant

Rehabilitation Specialist

BA, TTCTD, TPTC, MED-EL UK, Great Cliffe Court, Dodworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S75 3SP, UK; Executive Director, Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation, 35 Medford Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA.

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Geoff Plant

Music and cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics

Introduction The introduction of multichannel cochlear implants (CIs) in the early 1980s provided children and adults with severe and profound hearing losses with greatly improved speech perception skills. In this paper, however, I am going to focus on an area...

Combined use of a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: a case study

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants

When multi-channel cochlear implants (CIs) were first introduced in the 1980s, their use was restricted to people who derived no benefit from conventional amplification. Over the past three decades, however, the criteria for CIs has been relaxed considerably, and it...