Cochlear implants can be a life-changing tool for people with hearing loss, but some Deaf people argue their use risks compromising their community's identity.

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Parents of deaf children often do their best to integrate their children into school. However, there are deaf people who don't want to hear... Who are the students fitted with hearing aids in school ...

Emilee Segura, an early intervention specialist at The Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, has been working with 2-year-old Lucy Bentley since the girl was 3 months old. Both teacher and student ...

Typically, infants with hearing loss are first treated with hearing aids, and if these fail to help them develop early language and speech skills, they then become eligible for cochlear implants at 12 ...

Having autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, can make communication a challenge, and some of these children are also deaf, making social interactions even more daunting. But new research suggests that ...

A Louisville boy recently became the first patient in the United States to receive a MED-EL FLEX34 cochlear implant, which is designed for people with an unusually large cochlea — the part of the ear ...

Cochlear implants are not always recommended for infants with hearing loss and developmental delays, but new research suggests their use could be expanded. Cochlear implants generally are recommended ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...