Academic Outcomes for School-Aged Children With Severe-Profound Hearing Loss and Early Unilateral and Bilateral Cochlear Implants

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was funded by Australian Research Council Linkage Grant LP0989391 (awarded to Julia Z. Sarant, Karyn Galvin, Peter Blamey, and Peter Busby) and by Cochlear Ltd. We express our deep gratitude to the participating children and their families. We thank our collaborative partners-the Melbourne Cochlear Implant Clinic at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, the Shepherd Centre, Hear and Say, the Cora Barclay Centre, the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre, the audiology department at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital, and the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children With Hearing Impairment study-for sharing cognitive and language data for overlapping participants. We also thank Laura Sinclair and Jennifer Holland for their work on data collection.