A Raleigh family reveals
how cochlear implants and early intervention from parent educators have helped their daughter flourish at school.
Not exact matches
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.
«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.
This discovery helps explain
how humans can recover their perception of speech with electronic
cochlear implants, which generate signals much simpler than normal auditory inputs.
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.
The system would be sure to provide all options to the family and the deaf and hard of hearing child, including research about
how early signing with
cochlear implants does not negatively impact spoken language development (Hassanzadeh, 2012; Lyness, Woll, Campbell, & Cardin, 2013).