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December 2005 Real-time texting
New software has been developed which allows deaf people to have real-time text conversations using a mobile phone. So far it seems only vodfone has got the technology right, but you can read more about it in a report in...
An i-Pod for Christmas
Jose Caven is 12 years old and has cochlear implants in both ears so this Christmas she listened to Jingle Bells on the radio for the first time.You can read her story in today's Daily Telegraph....
Adam can hear Christmas carols again
One little boy and his family are particularly looking forward to Christmas this year. Nine year old Adam Hodgkinson has had a cochlear implant since he was deafened by contracting meningitis last year. He's already enjoyed listening to Christmas carols...
One Week after Switch On
By Gill Pickford I went back for another mapping on 20th December. One week post op. I also had some tests. These were pre-op and post-op tests to compare. I had to sit in front of a screen and listen...
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Designer Hearwear
The V&A museum in London is running a free exhibition of hearwear from top designers, to help to change people's persective of hearing. It is on until 5th March so there is still time to visit if you are in...
New Noises
By Gill Pickford. I had my second mapping on 16th December. My audiologist Deborah said I am doing well for such a short space of time. I said that the noises from the first programming sounded high pitched. She said...
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Switched On
Gill Pickford had normal hearing until about 10 to 12 years ago. It gradually declined until, four years ago, she became profoundly deaf. Gill has just had a cochlear implant and will be updating her diary as she makes progress...
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My daughter's second cochlear implant - an update
By Carolyn, mum to Lily, aged 9 Things are progressing well with the new implant - though not as well as I had hoped after her meteoric start. We have another rehab session on Monday so I am hoping that,...
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Breaking the Sound Barrier
The RNID has launched a 'Breaking the Sound Barrier' campaign (19th December) to help to change attitudes towards hearing loss and hearing aids. It involves the world's largest telephone hearing check which aims to reach out to the 4 million...
Turn the music down
The RNID has warned that the Christmas party season combined with longer licensing hours could lead to young people having their hearing damage by over exposure to loud music. A survey of 1,400 people aged 16 to 30 found that...
The future of cochlear implants
In a very interesting interview with Business Week, Chris Roberts, the Chief Executive of Cochlear, talks about the future of implants. According to Roberts there will be a huge market in the future for hybrid devices that combine an implant...
Cochlear implant mum copes with bringing up baby
The latest issue of Mother & Baby magazine (1st January cover date) tells the moving story of 19 year old Gemma Graham who is profoundly deaf and how she is coping with bringing up her 16 month old son, Alfie...
A hearing Christmas for Ellie
A heart-warming article in the Sun newspaper today about three youngsters who will be listening to Christmas carols for the first time this year. The full article can be found here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2005560774,,00.html...
Early implants perform best
A new study suggests that children who are given cochlear implants before the age of 30 months are more able to combine what they hear and what they see than those who receive their implants when they are older....
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My daughter's second cochlear implant
By Carolyn, mum to Lily, aged 9 I wanted Lily to have another CI so that if her head was injured or if her first implant failed at any point in her life she would have a back up. Additionally...
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Lily in her own words
Lily, aged 9 This is a letter written by Lily Davidson, aged 9 who lives in Edinburgh and has just had a second cochlear implant at the Manchester Cochlear Implant Centre. She wrote the letter to another 9 year...
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'Hearing doesn't impact on implant performance'
A very interesting study from the US which suggests that there is growing evidence that the amount of hearing in an ear prior to surgery is unrelated to a patient's ability to interpret speech using an implant....
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The sweet sound of Ravel's Bolero
Michael Chorost is peerless when writing about the experience of receiving a cochlear implant. His mother contracted rubella when pregnant and Michael was born deaf....
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