Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants - January 1st, 2009 (!)

Injured Iraqi boy arrives in Bay Area for surgery
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
The Iraq Action Group, the Ruth Group and numerous volunteers were able to
secure for free a $75000 cochlear implant device, the skills of surgeon Dr.
Larry ...


Injured 3-Yr Old Iraqi Boy Arrives For Treatment
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
Dr. Lawrence Lustig, director of the UCSF Douglas Gran Cochlear Implant
Center, will perform the operation pro bono, according to Lowenthal. ...


Iraqi boy to have surgery in SF
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
He will be staying at Ronald McDonald House while he goes through a
cochlear implant at UCSF. Doctor Lawrence Lustig is waiving his fee. ...


Ear op opens up world of sound for Leeds youngster
Yorkshire Evening Post - Leeds,England,UK
By Katie Baldwin The lively five-year-old was born profoundly deaf and did
not speak until a cochlear implant gave her hearing in one ear. ...

Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants - April 19th, 2008

Television: Hearing, deaf worlds collide in thoughtful 'Sweet Nothing'
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
"Dan learns from a doctor that Adam might be a good candidate for a cochlear
implant, an electronic device surgically implanted in the ear..."

Summary of five conference workshopsReading Eagle - Reading,PA,USA
How does a cochlear implant and hearing aid differ?
Accommodating Young Children with ADHD
More...

Matlin tackles life’s challenges feet-first
Boston Herald - United States
It also got the facts right and presented the cochlear implant debate from
both sides without advocating either. I loved that.” The implant issue
has been ...

Political Correctness on TV Sometimes Goes Too Far
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
"Daniels could hear and Matlin could not... (should) their deaf child should receive a cochlear implant...?"

Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull
Slashdot - USA
"he's hearing-impaired, and has a cochlear implant. Currently the speech
processor is still external, but you could imagine an internal one run off
of the..."

Embracing The World Of Sound
Washington Post - United States
" realized how much this cochlear implant had brought me. And it wasn't
just the implant; it was all of those doctors and nurses..."

April 7th - Latest Stories on Hearing

Selective hearing happens in every home
Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima,WA,USA
"When I cautiously think about hearing aids, I'm reminded of a
hard-of-hearing friend from long ago. Widowed when she married a widower,
their blended family ..."

Feeling the music, deaf performers make mark in Inland ballet ...
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
"If it weren't for her hearing aids, no one would guess that she hears only
some of the music. She cannot hear her teacher at all."

April 7th - Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants

Keeping the dream alive
Sunday Sun - Newcastle upon Tyne,England,UK
He said: "When I was a bit better, they offered me a cochlear implant.
But my mam refused. She asked the doctors to let nature take its course.
...

"Sweet Nothing in My Ear"
April 20, CBS
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
When Dan Miller (Jeff Daniels) learns that a recently refined therapy
called a cochlear implant offers his 8-year-old son, Adam (Noah Valencia),
..."


I was focused on what I could do to help my daughter hear
ChronicleLive - Newcastle upon Tyne,England,UK
I decided to get Faith a cochlear implant, and it has been a great success.
"She was one of the youngest babies in the North East ever to have the
procedure ..."

The benefits of cochlear implantsChronicleLive - Newcastle upon Tyne,England,UK
"THE first UK adult was given a cochlear implant in 1983, but it wasn't
until 1987 that the first child received one. The procedure is safe and the
benefits ..."

Hearing Loss - Top War Disability

digtriad.com
North Carolina, USA
March 2008

Hearing Loss - Top War Disability

"The loud sounds of mortar shells going off in battle has been found to have more soldiers coming back with damage to their hearing than any other disability."

Hearing Impaired Children Learn To Enjoy Music

WCSH6 TV
Portland, Oregon
March 2008

Hearing Impaired Children Learn To Enjoy Music

"Modern technology, including hearing aids and cochlear implants, allow the kids to hear the music. And they were responding to it on Wednesday, swaying and using hand signals to represent the animals the instruments were depicting musically in the story."

Moose Antlers Act as Hearing Aids?

The Independent
London, England
March 2008

I'm thinking it's not April 1st yet...

Interesting theory emerges from study of moose antlers - may act as hearing aids!

"...the moose was already known to have excellent hearing, with ears 60 times the size of humans. Their calls can travel almost two miles, allowing the deer to communicate over long distances. But antlered bulls can locate the position of moose cows much more accurately than males without antlers or other females, suggesting the antlers play a part in hearing."

Antennaes, maybe?