Sentences with phrase «as cochlear implants»

Whether hearing aids or other treatments (such as cochlear implants) can help stave off dementia is the «50 billion dollar question,» Dr. Lin adds.

The technology is likely to find its way into other types of hearing device, such as cochlear implants.

Not exact matches

Cochlear implants do not work for all children, implants are not always successful and should not be portrayed as a «cure» for deafness.

The other deaf people, those who carried out the task at the same speed as the control subjects, remain anchored to orality and therefore gain more benefit from cochlear implants.

Moser and his team plan to develop an optical cochlear implant with 100 channels, using micro-LEDs as the light source.

CYBORGS have walked among us for many years: humans fused with devices such as pacemakers, prosthetics and cochlear and retinal implants.

With a better understanding of how our auditory system functions, cochlear implants, and even our phones, might eventually be able to pick our voices out in a crowd just as well as we can.

As a hearing specialist and surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, he performs cochlear implants in patients to restore hearing and enable the deaf to appreciate music.

A similar approach is employed with cochlear implants for hearing loss which translate sounds into electrical stimulation of the inner ear and, over time, the brain learns to interpret these inputs as sound.

Already, researchers have developed devices such as deep brain stimulators for treating Parkinson's disease, cochlear implants for restoring minimal hearing in profoundly deaf people, and a computer interface called BrainGate that allows fully paralyzed individuals to accomplish simple tasks via a robotic arm.

Although not involved in research on SSDs, Lomber has studied the visual cortex and currently focuses on how the brain responds when hearing is restored (as in deaf people who receive cochlear implants).

Even more likely to get a nod would be Jessica Chastain, who's terrific here as Shannon's wife, trying to stand by her man while also wondering how he's going to pay for their deaf daughter's cochlear implants if this storm never hits.

This category is identified as a hearing impairment (fluctuating or permanent) that is severe enough to impact the process of verbal information (with or without amplification from hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.) and adversely affects — you guessed it — a child's performance.

The cochlear implant also known as «bionic ear» comprises of an external sound process that receives sound and processes it through a minicomputer.

• Treat patients with cochlear implants, including monitoring and programming the devices, and providing assistance to help patients as necessary.

(A) Nothing in this part limits the right of an infant or toddler with a disability with a surgically implanted device (e.g., cochlear implant) to receive the early intervention services that are identified in the child's IFSP as being needed to meet the child's developmental outcomes.

As a result, we see two types of deaf children being considered for cochlear implant candidacy: (a) young deaf infants and toddlers as part of early intervention plan promoting better language and behavioral development in deaf infants, and (b) older deaf children as the next alternate to other choices that have been attempted and did not satisfy family's expectatioAs a result, we see two types of deaf children being considered for cochlear implant candidacy: (a) young deaf infants and toddlers as part of early intervention plan promoting better language and behavioral development in deaf infants, and (b) older deaf children as the next alternate to other choices that have been attempted and did not satisfy family's expectatioas part of early intervention plan promoting better language and behavioral development in deaf infants, and (b) older deaf children as the next alternate to other choices that have been attempted and did not satisfy family's expectatioas the next alternate to other choices that have been attempted and did not satisfy family's expectation.