Roles
- Director, Family Support Services, Children's Hearing Program
- Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology
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Biography
Dr. Ivette Cejas is a Professor and Director of Family Support Services at the University of Miami Ear Institute. She is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Florida. Dr. Cejas is a well-known researcher in the area of pediatric cochlear implantation, publishing extensively in this area and at numerous conferences. As part of the UM Children’s Hearing program she provides therapeutic services to children and families coping with a hearing loss diagnosis or comorbid disorders.
She is an advocate for all children with hearing loss and organizes a comprehensive family program at UHealth to assist families through their journey with hearing loss. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. -
Education & Training
Education
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Publications
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Articles & News
University of Miami Psychologist Helps Peppa Pig Promote Hearing-Loss Awareness
Cochlear Implant Access for Spanish-Speaking Patients
Bridging Clinic and Classroom Improves Outcomes for Children with Cochlear Implants
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Information presented in this section has been consolidated using AI and machine learning technologies. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, errors may occur. If you identify any inaccuracies, use this link to inform our data team. Your feedback is appreciated and helps us improve the quality of our content.
Clinical Trials
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Pilot Intervention to Improve Language in Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants
- Principal Investigator: Ivette Cejas
- Study Phase: N/A
- Enrollment Status: Closed
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The Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation (CDaCI) study is a multisite, prospective investigation aof a large and diverse cohort of US children with cochlear implants. Purpose: To identify factors influencing oral languagerelated outcomes that impact cognitive, psychosocial and scholastic performance in young children with cochlear implants. Type of study: Concurrent prospective cohort studyPrimary Outcome: Oral language skillsSecondary Outcomes: Speech Recognition, attention and problemsolving skills, behavioral and social skills, social adjustment, healthrelated quality of life and costeffectiveness. Success in spoken language is seen to flow from success in other spheres of development. Thus the aims are driven by hypotheses that relate variability in postimplant language outcome to environmental, social, interventional, and biological influences. A major challenge in early childhood research relates to the reliable videoanalytic techniques that allow us to track communicative skills as they emerge. We will build on this research experience to examine how language skills unfold in children participating in the study, evaluating their 1. expressive & receptive language, 2. speech projection, 3. speech recognition, 4. cognitive skills, 5. social interaction & behavior, 6. relationships with family members, and 7. healthrelated quality of life. We are one of 6 sites in the United States that participated in the first phase of this study. We begin enrollment of subjects in April, 2003 and completed this phase in March, 2007. At our site, 23 children aged less than 5 who received cochlear implants were followed for up to three years. Details of the first phase of this study can be found in the archives of UM IRB files (February, 2002February, 2006) and Western IRB files (February, 2006March 26, 2007). We began the second phase of the study on July 6, 2007 and continued this portion of the study until June 30, 2012. We asked each subject who was enrolled in Phase I of this study to continue and be followed in Phase II of the study for a period of five years and now to follow up for the next five years in Phase III.We are going to begin the third phase of the study on July 1st, 2012 continuing for a period of five years, to end May 31, 2017.This is a multicenter study. A total of 288 study subject were enrolled in phase I of this study. The intention is to follow all 288 of these subjects in Phase II of the study. The study is being coordinated by Dr. John Niparko and his support staff at the Johns Hopkins University. All data collected for the purposes of the study is sent to the coordinating center for review. All data is placed in a main data base and results from the study cohort are shared with all study sites participating in the study.
- Principal Investigator: Ivette Cejas
- Study Phase: N/A
- Enrollment Status: Not Accepting