Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants
When you enter the world you could be born hearing, hearing impaired, or even without hearing. If you are born hearing impaired you are one of the 28 million Americans who have a hearing impairment. Hearing loss can affect people of all ages, in all of our population, and in any environment. Losing your hearing could be hereditary, can result from a disease, trauma, or even long-term exposure to damaging noise or medication. Hearing loss can vary from a mild but important loss, to even a total loss of hearing. In any case if hearing is lost you might consider a hearing aid to assist you in hearing, or even a cochlear implant depending on the severity. A hearing aid is an electronic, battery-operated device that amplifies and changes sound to allow for improved communication.
Hearing aids receive sound through a microphone, which then converts the sound wave to electrical signals. The amplifier increases the loudness of the signal and then sends the sound to the ear through a speaker. Not all types of hearing loss could be helped with a hearing aid. For people with a sensorineural hearing loss a hearing aid would assist them most likely all of the time. A child does not always improve in language skills after a cochlear implant. Caren Landis an American Sign Language professor at Rockland Community College works with several children who have had cochlear implants. One of her children received a cochlear implant almost six years ago at the age of eighteen months. The little girls speech in not understandable to those who are unfamiliar with her speec
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