A Psychosocial Follow up Study of Children with Cochlear Implants in Different School Settings

Abstract

In order to study the psychosocial and communicative consequences of cochlear implants (CI) in deaf children in Sweden, a longitudinal study of 22 preschool children with cochlear implants was carried out. When the children had started school a continued longitudinal follow up study of the same group of children was initiated in order to follow their development in different school settings. Twenty of the 22 children took part in the school study and a short overview of some of the main results of the school study is presented here.