More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated ...

Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds ...

Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds from a cochlear implant aren’t as clear as natural hearing, making it ...

Discover the meaning of “language deprivation” and why accessible language exposure for children born deaf or hard of hearing is important.

There’s still much more to learn about the full potential — and possible limitations — of this new wave of therapies, the author says.

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Federal funding has long played a crucial role in supporting research at Duke, a point underscored in a 1989 letter to the ...

On her mother’s instruction, a toddler gives her pink stuffed horse, Snap Snap, a big cuddle. Then, as told, she plants a kiss on his soft fur and, because he’s hungry, feeds him a pretend bowl of ...

After 37 Years, Rabbi Baruch and Rivka Wilhelm, who both struggled with hearing impairments for most of their lives, finally ...

The influential computer scientist Mark Weiser once wrote that “a good tool is an invisible tool. By invisible, I mean that the tool does not intrude on ...

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Study results published in The New England Journal of Medicine show the therapy significantly improved hearing in nearly a ...