... , we start to comprehend language and acquire the ability to communicate with others with speech. But what happens to those children that are born deaf due to genetics or adults that loose their hearing due to a disease or an accident? For many decades, these individuals had no hope on ... hair cells and electrical impulses travel the cochlear nerve. The brain then translates these into what we know as sound. In contrast, someone who is deaf, the sound waves are not conducted well in the outer and middle ear, therefore poor vibrations do not reach the cochlea. Others may have ... surgeon...

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... of vibrations per second. The closer the waves are the higher the frequency. With a higher frequency the pitch of a sound is raised. People become hearing impaired when the inner ear is damaged. There are two types of hearing loss that have sub categories. Conductive hearing loss is caused ... using 22 electrodes whereas the real human ear relies on 3500 hair cells that transform soundwaves into tuned sound. The cochlear implant is essentially tone-deaf. A real ear can differentiate between pitch and timbre, tones and semitones, but a cochlear implant cannot. This will also cause sound t...

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