Speech-recognition thresholds of single sided deaf and bimodal CI listeners for different interferer conditions

Introduction A cochlear implant (CI) restores bilateral hearing in listeners with either contralateral normal hearing (single sided deafness, SSD) or hearing impairment (bimodal, BIM) using a hearing aid (HA). This study investigated if patients of both groups with comparable binaural monosyllabic word recognition show differences for speech in noise or in speech.