Do physicians who have practiced in both the United States and Canada compare the systems?
The comparatively weak rating of the US system by dual-experience physicians underlines the need for health care reform.
These results demonstrate that pediatric cochlear implant users are sensitive to the acoustic-phonetic similarities among words, that they organize words into similarity neighborhoods in long-term memory, and they use this structural information in recognizing isolated words. The results further suggest that the PB-K underestimates these subjects' spoken words recognition.