Archive for June, 2008
Jessica Wesselman’s parents are as proud of her accomplishments as a student at the Central Institute for the Deaf as they are amazed at her progress after receiving a cochlear implant about two years ago.
Jessica Wesselman’s parents are as proud of her accomplishments as a student at the Central Institute for the Deaf as they are amazed at her progress after receiving a cochlear implant about two years ago.
AFTER promoting bionic eye research following the 2020 Summit, the Rudd Government has failed to back the only Australian group competing on the global playing field.
The deaf, their parents and advocates disagree on whether children are best off learning sign language or using hearing implants and aids to thrive in a hearing world — a split that was on public display Sunday as 1,500 convention-goers and abo...
This is not where a body ought to be, at 10:30 on a summer morning. We ought to be outside. We ought to be poolside. We ought to be working on our tans, those of us who actually tan.
My mother is completely deaf without her cochlear implant, so closed captions and subtitles on DVDs are standard fare in our house. However, when I make a home movie, I haven't always had a way to subtitle it for her. You can make a video with captions that are part of the video itself, but I could find no way to turn them off -- until I found SRT files and learned how to author a DVD with them ...
No Better Time to Celebrate Spoken Language
Three exciting events are taking place in Nottingham this week, all organised by The Ear Foundation, a Nottingham charity which supports profoundly deaf children, young people and adults who can now hear with their cochlear implants.
Three-year old Samantha Soto is profoundly deaf in her left ear and wears a cochlear implant on her right ear. She can hear, interpret and communicate because of therapy like the REACH program through
URBANA -- Carle Foundation Hospital broke ground on Wednesday for a $6.25 million facility dedicated to helping more children with hearing loss from throughout the Midwest.
