Perilingual: During the development of speech and language. "The age of onset continues to have important implications for cochlear implantation, depending on whether the hearing impairment occurred before (prelingual), during (perilingual), or after (postlingual) learning speech and language." (From an NIH Consensus paper) See also: Lingual.
Perilingual: During the development of speech and language. "The age of onset continues to have important implications for cochlear implantation, depending on whether the ...
Abstract. In August 1989, we implanted the first young (age 2-4) perilingual deaf child with the Ineraid multichannel cochlear implant. The child experienced sudden ...
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However, the difference between children with postlingual and prelingual-perilingual onsets appears to lessen with time. Large individual differences remain within each ...
(1991) Montandon et al. ORL journal for otorhinolaryngology and its related specialties. In August 1989, we implanted the first young (age 2-4) perilingual deaf child with ...