Current practice of paediatric chochlear implantation in nottingham.

The number of integrated paediatric cochlear implantation programme are very few in the world. In U.K. this pioneering integrated paediatric chochlear implantation programme has been started in the year 1989 under the supervision of group of dedicated paediatric personnel comprising of ENT surgeons, neuro-radiologist, audiologist, speech therapist, orthophonists, teachers of the deaf and others associated with the deaf children. Only the surgical procedure of cochlear implantation is not the answer of a profound sensorineural deaf child who can not be helped by conventional hearing aids. Proper selection of the cases, pre-operative counselling, pre-operative audiological and non-audiological investigations are of immense value. Similarly the programme following surgery as a team approach is equally important for proper rehabilitation of profound sensorineural deaf child who can not be helped by conventional hearing aids.