Doctoral Thesis Defense: Yeter Saçlı

Audiologist Yeter Saçlı has graduated from the Marmara University Doctoral Program in Audiology and Speech Disorders!

Yeter Saçlı earned the title of "Doctor" by successfully defending her thesis titled "Assessment of the Reading, Cognitive and Auditory Processing Skills of University-Educated Cochlear Implant Users," supervised by Prof. Dr. Abdullah Çağlar Batman.

Doctoral Thesis Defense Committee Members

• Prof. Dr. Abdullah Çağlar Batman (Supervisor)
• Prof. Dr. Ayşe Ayça Çiprut
• Prof. Dr. Çağatay Oysu
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sıdıka Cesur Coşkun
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yüksel
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zahra Polat

We congratulate our esteemed colleague Dr. Yeter Saçlı and wish her continued contributions.

Thesis Summary

Aim: To compare the reading, cognitive and auditory processing skills of university-educated cochlear implant (CI) users with normal-hearing individuals of a similar education level.

Findings: Normal-hearing individuals performed better on reading speed, phonemic verbal fluency, frequency pattern and gaps-in-noise tests; no significant difference was observed between the groups in learning and memory performance (AVLT, P300).

Conclusion: Although university-educated CI users exhibited slower reading and weaker auditory processing, their learning and memory performance was found to be similar.

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