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After 17 years of using a hearing aid one woman has been told she could get an operation to restore her hearing, but only if she qualifies as a candidate for the surgical procedure. Simone Kirton of Tiverton went through and qualified for the procedure, but then the other shoe drops.[...]
Semhar Beyene's childhood dream was to become a performer. There was just one problem - she was born profoundly deaf.
Cricketing hero Lance Cairns will swap his cricket whites for a loud shirt next month in support of Loud Shirt Day and raising funds for deaf children around the country.
The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears has taken place, thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the University of Southampton. A cochlear implant is an electronic device that can help both adults and children who have a severe to profound hearing loss. It has two parts: an internal receiver ...
A bubbly young Featherston girl has a new lease on life due to having double cochlear implants and is looking forward to celebrating Loud Shirt Day with her classmates at Kahutara School.
The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant to radically improve the hearing of a severely deaf woman has taken place.
DOCTORS at a Hampshire hospital have made British history with a four-hour operation that will hopefully enable a woman to hear for the very first time.
Even though American Sign Language is the third most used language in the country, it is common for hearing parents of deaf children to never learn it. And that can leave children feeling isolated.
A deaf women has become the first in the country to be given "stereo" hearing from just one cochlear implant.
The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant to radically improve the hearing of a severely deaf woman took place today.
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