Binaural hearing helps to understand speech better in adverse listening situations and localize sound source. While binaural fitting has been traditionally considered to hearing aids, monaural stimulation is commonly associated with cochlear implant. Bilateral cochlear implantation is not a common practice because of several reasons, e.g. expense of second implant, parental worry about second surgery, medical contraindications, waiting for future technology etc. Hence children with monaural cochlear implant will not get the advantages of binaural hearing. Finance being the major issue in a developing country like India, a least-expensive and non-invasive technique, i.e. bimodal stimulation (cochlear implant in one ear and hearing aid in the opposite ear) can be an alternative option to provide some of the benefits of binaural hearing for those who are limited to monaural cochlear implant. Dear viewers go through this book titled "Speech Recognition Performance of Children with Cochlear Implant using Binaural-Bimodal Stimulation" to understand some of the benefits provided by bimodal stimulation in cochlear implant recipients.

Dr. S. B. Rathna Kumar is Lecturer (Speech and Hearing) at Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai, India - 400050. Dr. Panchanan Mohanty is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Dean of School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (P.O. Central University), Hyderabad, India - 500046