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By Sara on October 16, 2009

This video made me smile. It’s good to see people in the Deaf community talking about their CI experience. Warning: I just learned 3 or 4 HINT test sentences from it… but now that I have a CI I can hear them anyway. Gallaudet Professors Josh and Sam Swiller received their cochlear implants…

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MED-EL Video: How A Cochlear Implant Works

By Sara on May 11, 2009

This is one of my favorite videos about cochlear implants – especially the part about the damaged hairs and when a hearing aid won’t help… After the ‘how it works’ part there are three testimonials from people who chose the MED-EL brand. I’m sure every brand has people willing to go on camera and oooh and ahh [...]

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I'm a 30-something year old girl originally from upstate NY and now living in central Virginia. My background is in mechanical engineering and I worked full time as an engineer for 8 years. In 2010 I quit my job and started a laser engraving business.

I lost my hearing at age 14 and have been using hearing aids since then. In April 2009 I received my first cochlear implant. That went really well so in December 2009 I got the second. The CIs are what prompted me to start writing publicly - but I try to cover other things as well.

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