Sentences with phrase «enable deaf people»

Back in the 1980s, there wasn't a lot of technology available to enable deaf people to communicate easily with hearing people.

The cochlear implant being developed by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, UK, will enable deaf people to hear sounds over a wide range of frequencies.

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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.

Such devices include cochlear implants that have enabled thousands of previously deaf people to hear again and, more recently, retinal implants that return sight to the blind.