Huw Cooper & Louise Craddock 
Cochlear Implants 
A Practical Guide

This is a comprehensive multi-author handbook covering all aspects of cochlear implantation, fully updated since its first edition was published in 1991. All aspects of this rapidly developing field are covered, from implant design, speech processing strategies, assessment and rehabilitation of children and adults to future developments. Chapters written by implant users and their parents give fascinating insight into the experience of hearing again with a cochlear implant.

Table of Content

Contributors.

Preface.

About the authors.

Introduction (Huw R. Cooper and Louise C. Craddock).

Chapter 1: Implant design and development (David B. Grayden
and Graeme M. Clark).

Chapter 2: Speech processing strategies (Blake S.
Wilson).

Chapter 3: The cochlear implant team (David W.
Proops).

Chapter 4: Assessment of adult patients (Claire A.
Fielden).

Chapter 5: Assessment of children (Mary Joe Osberger, Amy
Mc Conkey Robbins and Patricia G. Trautwein).

Chapter 6: Selection criteria and prediction of outcomes (Huw
R. Cooper).

Chapter 7: Psychological aspects of cochlear implantation
(John F. Knutson).

Chapter 8: Medical and surgical considerations (John M.
Graham).

Chapter 9: Radiological evaluation in cochlear implantation
(Colin L.W. Driscoll and Michael B. Gluth).

Chapter 10: Cochlear implant surgery (Richard T.
Ramsden).

Chapter 11: Utility of electrically evoked potentials in
cochlear implant users (Paul J. Abbas and Carolyn J.
Brown).

Chapter 12: Device programming (Louise C. Craddock).

Chapter 13: Adult rehabilitation (Geoff Plant).

Chapter 14: Paediatric habilitation (Elizabeth Tyszkiewicz
and Jacqueline Stokes).

Chapter 15: Soundfield hearing for patients with cochlear
implants and hearing aids (Richard S. Tyler, Camille C. Dunn,
Shelley A. Witt, William Noble, Bruce J. Gantz, Jay T. Rubinstein,
Aaron J. Parkinson, Steve C. Branin).

Chapter 16: The future of cochlear implants (Jennifer L.
Smullen, Adrien A. Eshraghi and Thomas J. Balkany).

Chapter 17: A patient’s perspective (Jean Briggs,
Timothy Stanley).

Chapter 18: A parent’s perspective (Jennie Clewes,
Tricia Kemp).

Index.

About the author

Huw R. Cooper, MSc, Consultant Audiological Scientist, after
obtaining his Master’s degree in audiology at Southampton
University in 1983, joined the team at University College Hospital,
London, where he initially worked on tinnitus research. He was then
closely involved in the set-up and development of the new UCH/RNID
Cochlear Implant Programme, which led the way in establishing
cochlear implantation in the UK. Since 1991, he has managed the
audiology services at University Hospital Birmingham, including
overseeing the growth and development of the Midlands Adult and the
Birmingham Children’s Cochlear Implant Programmes. His
research interests include Neural Response Telemetry and Auditory
Perceptual Grouping, on which topic he is currently working towards
a Ph D. Huw lives just outside Birmingham with his wife and three
teenage children.

Louise C. Craddock, MSc, CCC-A, Audiological Scientist,
originally trained as a teacher of hearing-impaired children and
taught in London for twelve years before obtaining her MSc in
Audiology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Since then
she has worked on the UCL Adult and Nuffield Paediatric Cochlear
Implant Programmes in London and is now the Co-ordinator of the
Midlands Adult Cochlear Implant Programme in Birmingham. She has a
research interest in objective measures in cochlear implantation,
particularly in Neural Response Telemetry, and has published and
presented her work in this area. Louise lives in Birmingham with
her husband and two young daughters.