1Archie’s Cochlear Implant Laboratory, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
2Department of Communication Disorders, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
3Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
4Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
5Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
6Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Received March 10, 2021; accepted June 23, 2022; published online ahead of print September 29, 2022.
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We would like to acknowledge the children who participated in this study and their parents for their essential contributions as well as support from members of our research team (Jerome Valero and Stephanie Jewell, in particular) and clinicians in the Cochlear Implant Program at the Hospital for Sick Children. Support was provided from Cochlear Americas Chair in Auditory Development; Bastable-Potts Health Clinician Scientist in Hearing Impairment (K.G) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (K.G, M.P, B.P.), Brazilian Federal Agency for Post-Graduate Education (L.V).
All experimental procedures were conducted under the approval of the Hospital for Sick Children’s Research Ethics Board (study #1000002954). Parents and legal guardian provided written consent, and participants gave assent prior to participating in the study.
M.P analyzed the data and co-wrote the paper; L.V analyzed the data and reviewed the paper; B.C. designed and supported experiments and reviewed the paper, K.G designed the experiments, supervised data collection and data analyses, and co-wrote the paper.
B.P.: Speakers bureau – Cochlear Corp; patent holder: #7041-0: Systems and Methods for Balance Stabilization, Sponsored research agreement, Cochlear Americas; K.G.: Sponsored research agreement and Speakers bureau – Cochlear Americas, Adjunct faculty, Salus University; Cochlear Americas Chair in Auditory Development.
Address for correspondence: Karen A. Gordon, Archie’s Cochlear Implant Laboratory, Rm 6D08, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8. E-mail: [email protected]
