Advances in technology, including cochlear implants, have changed the lives of people with hearing problems. ... People who are deaf are those with profound hearing loss who cannot understand sounds without or without hearing aids and people who are hard of hearing are those with hearing losses that impair their understanding of sounds, including communication, profit from listening devices and other hearing technologies that enable them to comprehend oral speech and communication (Smith, 2007). ... The development of the hearing aids has had a significant impact on the lives of people with h...

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The advent of electronic amplification has allowed the musically/technically-inclined to join the ranks of boilermakers, truck drivers, artillery gunners and others whose occupations have rendered them partly or effectively deaf. ... Ignore this fact and you will progressively go deaf. ...

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