Update to Required Tests Needed to Evaluate Hearing Loss in People with Cochlear Implants, New Report Recommends Update to Required Tests Needed to Evaluate Hearing Loss in People with Cochlear Implants, New Report Recommends

As cochlear implant technologies has substantially enhanced, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) ought to use a much more challenging test than the Hearing in Sounds Check (Hint) to make incapacity advantage determinations in older people and children immediately after cochlear implant surgical procedure, suggests a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.