Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants - January 25th 2009

Cochlear Implant Helps Blackfoot Man Hear
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA
A deaf and blind man from Blackfoot can now hear, thanks to a group of ISU
students' generous donation of a Cochlear implant. Bill Jones, Received
Cochlear ...

Deaf pianist's show combines music and a talk on hearing loss
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
"It's built up more since I got the cochlear implant in 2002, and I could
function on the telephone. I hear very little with my hearing aid, but it
enriches ...

Sounding out life's future challenges
Bundaberg NewsMail - Australia
Since the Bundaberg teenager's cochlear implant was turned on about a year
ago she has been busy re-adjusting to a world of sound. ...

Brighton native nominated for Academy Award
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... her first feature-length film, , about her parents, Paul and Sally
Taylor of Sodus, Wayne County, who decided later in life to have a cochlear
implant. ...

Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implant
OR-Live - West Harford,CT,USA
Cleveland - On Tuesday, February 24th, watch a Sequential Bilateral
Cochlear Implant performed from University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Rainbow Babies ...

US Surgeons Work To Restore Iraqi Boy's Lost Hearing From Missile
WTVY - Dothan,AL,USA
The boy was brought to San Francisco from Iraq to have a Cochlear Implant
installed. The implant is a device that turns sound waves into electronic
signals. ...

To hear rain fall: Local gospel singer hears again for the first ...
Anderson Independent Mail - Anderson,SC,USA
White recently regained her hearing after receiving a cochlear implant. The
sound of her voice lifts off the record player sitting underneath the front
...

Children's Picture Book on Cochlear Implants
Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists - King of Prussia,PA,USA
Abby Gets a Cochlear Implant , a new children's picture book, was
introduced at the American Academy of Audiology Annual Convention in
Charlotte , NC in ...

Iraqi Boy’s Surgery Successful
KCBS - CA,USA
... group of reporters, Ghazwan squirmed and sat uncomfortably as he wore a
large bandage over his right ear where doctors had inserted a cochlear
implant. ...

Make it truly special
Hindu - Chennai,India
Hari underwent a cochlear implant surgery at two years and attended
intensive speech therapy. His language skills improved at a considerable
pace and by age ...