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Linda J. Spencer, MA CCC-sp Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center

The First Class: Educational Outcomes and Achievement Test Results from Students Who Grew Up Wearing Cochlear Implants. Linda J. Spencer, MA CCC-sp Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at The University of Iowa. Acknowledgements.

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Linda J. Spencer, MA CCC-sp Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center

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  1. The First Class: Educational Outcomes and Achievement Test Results from Students Who Grew Up Wearing Cochlear Implants Linda J. Spencer, MA CCC-sp Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at The University of Iowa

  2. Acknowledgements Bruce J. Gantz, MD J. Bruce Tomblin, Ph.D UI Speech-Language Team –Brittan Barker M.A., Sandie Bass Ringdahl, Ph.D UI Cochlear Implant Team Participants and Families Funding by: Research grant 2 P50 DC00242 from the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health Grant RR00059 from the General Clinical Research Centers Program, NCRR, National Institutes of Health The Iowa Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation

  3. Background of Study • First pediatric implant patient underwent surgery in 1987. • What has happened to the first cohort of children implanted? • Educational and achievement measures provide us with a sense of what has happened to this cohort.

  4. Participants • No concomitant identified disabilities • Surgery occurred between 1987 and 1995 • All had reached 10th grade or were >16 yrs • 26 Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users (attrition = 12%) • Average of 9 yrs of CI experience • Ave age at hook up: 5 yrs 11 mos • All had Nucleus 22 Device

  5. Participants (continued) • 16/23 were old enough to participate in education/vocational outcome study • All 23 participants completed reading achievement testing; 14/23 competed additional achievement testing • 7/23 reported that after ave 7 years of consistent CI use, they began to wear their CI’s only during school

  6. Measures • Educational and/or Vocational Information (n=16) • Paragraph Comprehension Scores on Woodcock Reading Mastery Test (n=23) • Portions of Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement (n=14) • Parent’s Educational/Vocational Status • CID sentence test scores AVE 85% correct (sd 24)

  7. Results—Educational/Vocational Outcomes • 16 Participants have reached age 18 or more • 12/16 (75%) of the 18 year olds are attending or accepted to post-high school institutions • 7 Universities • 5 Community Colleges • 2 Homemakers • 2 Unknown

  8. Results—Reading and Achievement Tests

  9. CI Users Test Norms

  10. Subtest Standard Scores Subtest SD Ave

  11. Conclusions • This first cohort of cochlear implant users are high achievers academically with a high rate of post high school placement • Standardized Achievement testing results reveal that they are competitive with their hearing peers • It will be interesting to follow this group for eventual Vocational Placement • We can predict subsequent cohorts will do as well or better than this group, as current age of implantation decreases

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