Biography
Biography: A Sanem Sahli
Abstract
Cochlear implants have been designed primarily to enhance speech and language skills. Therefore, musical perception and appreciation can be challenging for many users with cochlear implant. Children and adults with cochlear implant have difficulty with accurately perceiving certain elements of music, such as pitch and timbre. Also, they often provide lower scores of musical sound quality when compared to normally hearing people. Musical skills depend on many factors in cochlear implant users. The age and duration of hearing loss and cochlear implant, number and condition of surviving auditory neurons, processing capabilities of the implant and sound processor and musical trainings after cochlear implant very important factors for musical perception. Music activities reinforcing the levels of auditory development can help children and adults with cochlear implant to develop their listening, auditory perception and communication.