Parental Expectation from Children with Cochlear Implants in Indian Context: a Questionnaire Based Study.

 Parental support is important in the habilitation/rehabilitation of children using cochlear implant devices. Hence, it is important for families to know the realistic expectations regarding outcomes from CIs.  The objective of the present study is to know the parents' expectation from children using CIs.

Auditory Temporal Resolution in Individuals with Diabetes Mellitus Type 2.

 "Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by elevated blood sugar and abnormalities in insulin secretion and action" (American Diabetes Association). Previous literature has reported connection between diabetes mellitus and hearing impairment. There is a dearth of literature on auditory temporal resolution ability in individuals with diabetes mellitus type 2.

Central recruitment in individual with auditory neuropathy.

Auditory neuropathy (AN) describes patients with dysfunction of the auditory nerve in the presence of preserved cochlear outer hair-cell receptor functions in presence of normal otoacoustic emissions and/or cochlear microphonics. In individuals with auditory neuropathy speech are disproportionate to their hearing sensitivity and reported to be dependent on cortical evoked potentials. In individuals with AN, who have normal cortical potentials have better speech identification scores when compared to those with abnormal cortical potentials reflect relation between the cortical potentials and the speech identification scores.