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. ...

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 ..."

Jamaican School for the Deaf Celebrates 50 Years

Jamaica
Jamaica Gleaner
February 2008

Imagine Jamaica 50 years ago.
Imagine being deaf in Jamaica in the 1950's.
Beautiful story of how two determined Canadian missionaries launched a school for the deaf in 1957 Jamaica.