Extraordinary Speech and Language Outcomes After Auditory Brainstem Implantation: Guidance From a Case Study

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2023
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American English
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Purpose: Large individual differences and poor speech recognition outcomes are routinely observed in most patients who have received auditory brainstem implants (ABIs). A case report of an ABI recipient with exceptionally good speech recognition outcomes presents an opportunity to better understand the core information processing mechanisms that underlie variability and individual differences in outcomes.

Method: A case study is reported of an adult ABI recipient (ID-006) with postlingually acquired, Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2)-related hearing loss who displayed exceptional postoperative speech recognition scores. A novel battery of assessment measures was used to evaluate ID-006's auditory, cognitive, and linguistic information processing skills.

Results: Seventeen years following ABI activation, ID-006 scored 77.6% correct on the AzBio Sentences in quiet. On auditory processing tasks, ID-006 scored higher on tasks with meaningful sentences and much lower on tasks that relied exclusively on audibility. ID-006 also demonstrated exceptionally strong abilities on several cognitive and linguistic information processing tasks.

Conclusions: Results from a novel battery of information processing tests suggest that ID-006 relies extensively on top-down predictive processing and cognitive control strategies to efficiently encode and process auditory information provided by his ABI. Results suggest that current measures of outcomes and benefits should be expanded beyond conventional speech recognition measures to include more sensitive and robust measures of speech recognition as well as neurocognitive measures such as executive function, working memory, and lexical access.

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Herbert CJ, Kronenberger WG, Wolfert K, Nelson RF, Yates CW, Pisoni DB. Extraordinary Speech and Language Outcomes After Auditory Brainstem Implantation: Guidance From a Case Study. Am J Audiol. 2023;32(4):761-778. doi:10.1044/2023_AJA-23-00099
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