Interesting article- one part challenges the idea that a long period of postlingual deafness leads to poorer speech discrimination with a CI

[Mary Beth]

As someone who has an implanted ear which had not processed any sound for 24 years following a surgery for Ménière’s (but had heard to varying degrees before then), I can attest to how great such an ear can be with a CI

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/predicting-cochlear-implant-performance-impact-of-demographic-audiologic-surgical-factors-and-cochlear-health/178743/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1a5tz_IgPk-VA4yJRGfSaJvAdxMqNDclkwS7PUZ-a7f0d8_46wH7g-p4M_aem_mLvncyH7VnAlkrtkXPs9RQ