Table 1.

Biographical data for the 4 SSD-CI patients

	S1	S2	S3	S4
Age, years	39	38	48	49
Gender	Female	Female	Male	Male
Age at profound HL, years	34	36	42	48
Etiology	Ménière’s disease	Idiopathic	Idiopathic	Idiopathic
Time since activation, months	2	9	3	16
Implant processor	Advanced Bionics	MED-EL	MED-EL	MED-EL
Speech (CI only)	77% sentences quiet	96% sentences quiet	76% sentences quiet	60% sentences quiet

The sentences are from the AzBio test set [Spahr et al., 2012]. HL = Hearing loss.