Abstract
Eleven prelingually deafened children spoke 14 words after their cochlear implants had been turned off for several hours. They spoke the words again with their device turned on. Statistical analyses performed on the transcribed utterances revealed that no significant differences occurred between the device-turned-off and the device-turned-on condition. On average, subjects did not change the accuracy with which they produced vowel height, vowel place, initial consonant place, initial consonant voicing, nor final consonant voicing. Subjects who were most likely to recognize vowels in an audiological test were also most likely to demonstrate a decrement in their production of the vowel place feature when their cochlear implant was turned off.

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