This happy cochlear implant story in the Charlotte Observer made me smile. The 11-year-old girl in the story talks about learning to distinguish a bell from a cell phone ringer. The story reminded me so clearly of when my 3-year-old daughter got her cochlear implant. In her case, she was being asked to distinguish between a toy giraffe and a hippo. I’ll never forget when she pointed to the giraffe. One day she could hear, a week later she was completely deaf, and 4 months later she could hear again. What a rollercoaster!
The girl in the Observer story was deaf a birth and did not get her cochlear implant until age 11.
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