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By Sara on April 27, 2009
This is kind of other-worldly…. so much has changed in the last 15 years…. Processors are now the size of large hearing aids, and individual wires inside the ear have been replaced with tiny electrode pairs. On a related note, the Wikipedia article on CIs has a lot of info. TIME magazine – March 12, 1984 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921607,00.html — — — — — — - Success [...]
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By Sara on April 8, 2009
Monday was my 2nd visit to UNC Chapel Hill. Everyone down there was highly anticipating that night’s Basketball game (not something I was following). Sunday afternoon Don and I drove down and went to the house of my older cousin and his wife. My older cousins and I haven’t had a lot of opportunity to be [...]
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By Flickrpost on March 28, 2009
Benefits of EAS Originally uploaded by sajego This chart is from a paper I just read. It basically shows that in their study people with a CI benefited quite a bit from using a hearing aid in the unimplanted ear, even with hearing only at 125 Hz.
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By Sara on March 27, 2009
Today I came across http://hearingpreservation.com, a website for an annual conference on what it sounds like – hearing preservation. The abstracts from last year’s conference in Kansas City are online in a pdf file, and while most are only one page, and many go over my head by using technical terms for anontomy of the ear that [...]
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By Sara on March 26, 2009
I was looking for a good ‘what is a CI’ video and came across a press release from last week that talks about Med-El’s new SoundScape listening practice. I don’t have my headphones with me at work today, but it looks like it would be useful and fun. http://www.medel.com/US/Rehabilitation/sound-scape.php
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By Sara on March 25, 2009
I read these sometime last fall I think: http://www.hearingresearch.org/Dr.Ross/CI-one.htm http://www.hearingresearch.org/Dr.Ross/CI-two.htm I was also particularly interested in his experiences with a CI to hear music. Unfortunately it wasn’t that encouraging. You can find those and all of his articles on hearing loss here: http://www.hearingresearch.org/ross.htm
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