Sentences with phrase «cochlear implant at»

Rachel received her first cochlear implant at just 10 months old at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.

It is possible to be fitted with hearing aids or cochlear implants at an early age that can help speech development and facilitate learning.

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A Raleigh family reveals how cochlear implants and early intervention from parent educators have helped their daughter flourish at school.

Cochlear implants for hearing are quite sophisticated now, and we're just at the beginning with retinal implants.

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.

Researchers at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), together with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), have developed a new, low - power signal - processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that requires no external hardware.

Two of their collaborators at MEEI — Konstantina Stankovic, an ear surgeon who co-led the study with Chandrakasan, and Don Eddington — tested it on four patients who already had cochlear implants and found that it had no effect on their ability to hear.

Cochlear implants — medical devices that electrically stimulate the auditory nerve — have granted at least limited hearing to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who otherwise would be totally deaf.

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

«Between the time the child hears the word and the time the child clicks on the picture, eye tracking allows us to look at how they are activating information unconsciously,» says Schwartz, who also uses eye tracking to study speech problems in kids with hearing loss who rely on cochlear implants.

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.

At the time, another neural prosthetic was just gaining traction: cochlear implants, which bypass damaged cells in the inner ear to directly stimulate the auditory nerve.

The technique could one day provide an autonomous power source for brain and cochlear implants, says Tina Stankovic, an auditory neuroscientist at Harvard University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Beyond the success of the cochlear implant or the deep brain pacemaker, systems to restore vision, tactile sensation or locomotion are at various stages of clinical trials.

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«There are at this point more than 300,000 people walking around with cochlear implants to help them hear.

The world's first cochlear implant was performed by Professor Graeme Clark in 1978 on Rod Saunders at the Melbourne Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.

I started at Jamison, where I supported the educational and social learning of a pair of 8 - year - olds who have cochlear implants and who were mostly mainstreamed.

The children's age at the time of enrollment in the cochlear implant program ranged from 3 to 35 months, with a mean of 18 months (SD = 10.94).