Sentences with phrase «use cochlear implants»

Today more than 180,000 people use cochlear implants.

SAN DIEGO — Tens upon tens of thousands of people in the U.S. use cochlear implants, a bionic ear - like device that can restore hearing to the profoundly hearing impaired.

In the family, two out of the six children use cochlear implants for their hearing loss.

Some deaf and hard of hearing use cochlear implants and hearing aids for spoken English, but many prefer ASL, which is an important part of deaf culture.

She enjoys working with her co-workers and practicing using her cochlear implant.

Not exact matches

This supports the optoacoustic stimulation theory, they say, and they aim use this refinement of the optoacoustic effect to develop a new generation of cochlear implants.

Using lasers instead of electrodes to vibrate the hairs in the inner ears could lead to less damaging cochlear implants

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

Standard cochlear implants function by stimulating nerves using an electrode placed inside the cochlea, a tiny spiral cavity inside the ear.

«The idea with this design is that you could use a phone, with an adaptor, to charge the cochlear implant, so you don't have to be plugged in,» says Anantha Chandrakasan, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and corresponding author on the new paper.

Existing cochlear implants use an external microphone to gather sound, but the new implant would instead use the natural microphone of the middle ear, which is almost always intact in cochlear - implant patients.

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.

The brain circuits used by such «super-readers», and which are situated in the right hemisphere, are organised differently and thus cochlear implants give poor results.

In addition to her cochlear implant, she wears a powerful hearing aid in her left ear and uses other technologies when she needs to communicate by phone.

Raphael says one future possibility would be to use the therapy to improve hearing in people who already wear cochlear implants.

Understanding these processes may also be important for advancing the technology used to make cochlear implants.

Like Wi - Fi for hearing aids, the technology uses an inductive loop to transmit sound signals directly into an in - ear hearing aid or cochlear implant, where it is received by an inductive device called a telecoil.

«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.

All of the devices we use are FDA - approved, multi-channel cochlear implant systems, and provide multiple speech perception strategies and other features.

While the use of cochlear implants (CIs) help many deaf children achieve normative language development, the neurocognitive factors that underlie success are poorly understood.

Instead of learning American Sign Language (ASL), many children who are deaf or hard of hearing are encouraged primarily to use the language of the dominant culture by learning to read lips and speak or to «fix» their inability to hear by having a cochlear implant surgically installed, which provides a sense of sound.

Cochlear implants are highly reliable but must be accompanied by an intensive auditory rehabilitation component for successful use.