Cochlear implantation. What kind of rehabilitation a child needs after CI?

The proposed issue of the Almanac continues to publish materials on the topic of cochlear implantation (CI) - the most effective modern method of help with deafness, allowing a deaf person to gain full perception of the world and people's speech, which opens the possibility to change fundamentally the development potential of children with the most severe hearing impairments, with congenital and early acquired deafness. Everything that the reader learns from this issue about children with CI, they learn from the original source: the authors of the articles are surgeons-pioneers of using this high-tech medical method in Russia, psychologists and teachers of the deaf who developed the rehabilitation method of successfully operated children — "Initial period -rehabilitation", allowing all of them to fully realize the opportunities and move to the path of natural development, typical for hearing children