Double cochlear implants improve student grades
A world-first study of deaf primary school students has revealed children with double cochlear implants performed much better on exams than children with only one.
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A world-first study of deaf primary school students has revealed children with double cochlear implants performed much better on exams than children with only one.
Aug 27, 2015
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KU Leuven biologists have discovered a molecular on-off switch that controls how a mouse brain responds to vision loss. When the switch is on, the loss of sight in one eye will be compensated by the other eye, but also by ...
Aug 12, 2015
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A University of Arizona collaborative study among the Departments of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery; Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; and Psychology received approval in early May to begin accepting human subjects ...
May 25, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Colorado suggest that the portion of the brain devoted to hearing can become reorganized—reassigned to other functions—even with early-stage hearing loss, and may play a role in cognitive ...
May 19, 2015
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Cochlear implantation was associated with improved speech perception and cognitive function in adults 65 years or older with profound hearing loss, according to a report published online by JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck ...
Mar 12, 2015
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There was something wrong with Joshua Copen's hearing. No matter how many times doctors told Iara Peng, Joshua's mother, that her baby with Down syndrome had normal hearing, she knew they were wrong.
Mar 9, 2015
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People who use cochlear implants for profound hearing loss do respond to certain aspects of music, contrary to common beliefs and limited scientific research, says a research team headed by an investigator at Georgetown University ...
Jan 26, 2015
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Enhancing hearing appears to improve balance in older adults with hearing loss, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Patients with hearing aids in both ears performed better ...
Dec 12, 2014
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Pain, discomfort and magnet displacement were documented in a small medical records review study of patients with cochlear implants (CIs) who underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), according to a report published online ...
Nov 20, 2014
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Infants' vocalizations throughout the first year follow a set of predictable steps from crying and cooing to forming syllables and first words. However, previous research had not addressed how the amount of vocalizations ...
Sep 23, 2014
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