Sentences with phrase «thousands of deaf people»

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We can think of the problem of cancer or of poliomyelitis, of the increasing number of people who are mentally sick, of the thousands of broken homes, of the juvenile delinquent, and of the special problems of the blind, the deaf, the dumb, the spastic and the mentally defective.

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.

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.