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Baby With Cochlear Implant Hears Mom for the First Time in Touching Video

by Tom Henderson, Posted May 28th 2010 2:24PM

A video going viral today shows a hearing-impaired baby named Jonathan bursting into a smile after his new cochlear implant -- a sort of bionic ear -- is switched on. It is a beautiful moment, indeed. A cochlear implant is a surgically ...
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Marlee Matlin - "Children Deserve Love and Respect"

by Susan Wagner, Posted Apr 16th 2009 11:00AM

Marlee Matlin rose to fame in 1986 when she played deaf teacher Sarah Norman in the film Children of a Lesser God. At 21, Matlin won an Oscar for her performance, becoming the first deaf actor to do so, and the youngest actor to win an Oscar for Best ...
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Deafness only temporary in some children

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted May 17th 2007 12:31PM

In a revolutionary new discovery, it turns out that some children are born deaf, but then "recover" from their deafness without the aid of medical technology. In order to hear, hair cells in the inner ear must convert sounds into signals that ...
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Loud toys are theat to children's hearing

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Dec 12th 2006 1:32PM

Damaged hearing, or even immediate hearing loss can result from playing with many toys that are widely available this Christmas. Deafness UK tested 15 toys, including Pixar Cars' Lightning McQueen, Fireman Sam's Friction Jupiter and Tomy's ...
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