There has always been controversy on the topic of the use of cochlear implants versus hearing aids. The deaf community prefers to have a less invasive measure of assistive technology, the hearing aid, but studies show that cochlear implants have better results for pre-lingually deaf and post-lingually deaf patients.
"Hearing loss that occurs before a child develops speech and language skills is referred to as prelingual. Hearing loss that occurs after a child develops speech and language skills is known as postlingual." -Aussie Deaf Kids
In "Prelingual deafness: Benefits from cochlear implants versus conventional hearing aids" written by Aline Gomes Bittencourt, Ana Adelina Giantomassi Della Torre, Ricardo Ferreira Bento, Robinson Koji Tsuji, and Rubens de Brito seeks to answer whether cochlear implants (CI) provide greater benefits for pre-lingually deaf individuals when compared to hearing aids (HA). Bittencourt et al., with the use of "systematic review of the medical literature" reported that cochlear implants have greater benefits for these individuals as evidenced by the "acquisition of linguistic and communicative skills in patients" (Bittencourt et al., 2012, Final Comments).
Read the full article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4399630/
Similarly, a follow-up article, "Post-lingual deafness: benefits of cochlear implants vs. conventional hearing aids" written by the authors mentioned above considers if cochlear implants (CI) have greater benefits than hearing aids (HA) in individuals who are post-lingually deaf. Once again, through the use of a systematic review, it was concluded that cochlear implants are proven to have better results than hearing aids as evidenced by "audiological tests, improved quality-of-life, and overall procedure cost-effectiveness" (Bittencourt et al., 2012, Conclusion).
Read the full article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1808869415300197?via%3Dihub
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