Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital apologises for wrongly programming the cochlear implants of one in four children in its program, causing what are expected to be lifelong development problems.
abc.net.au/news/wch-hearing-bungle-leave-children-with-developmental-delays/102117512Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital has apologised for wrongly programming the cochlear implants of one in four children in its program, causing what are expected to be lifelong development problems.
"As a result of the hospital's failure to turn up Logan's cochlear implants over approximately four years, we believe he's severely delayed in his hearing and his speech," his father, Dale, said.The Smedley family believe six-year-old Logan's hearing and speech has been delayed due to the mistake. "Our initial testing has shown that they didn't have the important access to all of the sounds that they needed to learn to listen or speak."Many of these children have missed this opportunity."
"This meant everything we had done over the last couple of years in relation to our boys' hearing had been done in vain," she said. The Women's and Children's Hospital network said an internal review into what went wrong had been underway since last May, but it was still months off completion and it did not yet know what the cause of the problem was.
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