Speech Understanding in Noise Under Different Attentional Demands in Children With Typical Hearing and Cochlear Implants

Switching attention is more challenging than sustaining attention in listening situations children face every day, including CI users. Furthermore, children with CIs appear to exert effort beyond what is captured by listening tasks and struggle with maintaining attention over longer periods than typically hearing peers, highlighting the need to consider the characteristics of learning environments of children with CIs even if hearing thresholds are in typical range.