Figure 6.

(A) The average speech recognition growth curves estimated for the first implanted (orange line) and the second implanted (blue line) ears of children with SEQ BiCIs. The ±1 SD across the average curves are shown in light orange and light blue for the first and the second implanted ears, respectively. Distribution of three outcome measures of (B) the slope (in PROSPER/year), (C) the time from activation to the plateau onset (in years), and (D) the score at the plateau (in PROSPER) calculated from the estimated speech recognition growth curves of the first (orange color) and the second (blue colors) implanted ears of children with SEQ BiCIs. In each panel, a scatter plot shows the data for individual ears, while the boxplots summarize the distributions of each outcome measure for the first and second implanted ears. The data points are laid over a ±1.96 standard error of the mean (95% confidence interval) shown as boxes and ±1 SD shown by solid vertical lines. The solid horizontal, dark orange/blue lines show the mean or each group of data, respectively. PROSPER = Pediatric Ranked Order Speech Perception; CI = cochlear implant; SEQ BiCI = sequential bilateral implantation.