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39-Year-Old Deaf Woman Hears for First Time
Yahoo ^ | 3-28-14 | Ralphie Aversa

Posted on 03/28/2014 1:54:49 PM PDT by kingattax

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To: Starstruck
Believe it.
21 posted on 03/28/2014 2:50:31 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty
Believe it.

No.

22 posted on 03/28/2014 2:57:44 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Starstruck

OK. Nobody in the universe has ever been born deaf. Gotcha.


23 posted on 03/28/2014 3:00:23 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Starstruck
The article says this woman was born deaf. This is BS. Her response is too close to normal speech to be attributed to lip reading. This is some PR for free Healthcare

You obviously read the title thread without bothering to watch the video.......Her reaction was to the sounds which were being translated to her by the hand signing interpreter.

I have close friends who have twins which were born deaf, trained to communicate via signing and to read lips.

While they can read lips and sign, their problem is vocalizing words that they themselves can not hear..........

You might want to educate yourself on hearing disabilities before you condemn this video due to your own ignorance............

24 posted on 03/28/2014 3:01:19 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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To: tflabo
so once implanted in the cochlea does it need to be turned on from an external software command?

Yes, they have to be tuned for the individual, and yes it's done via software.

25 posted on 03/28/2014 3:04:30 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Cyber Liberty
OK. Nobody in the universe has ever been born deaf. Gotcha.

Didn't say that, gotcha person.

26 posted on 03/28/2014 3:04:35 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
While they can read lips and sign, their problem is vocalizing words that they themselves can not hear.......... You might want to educate yourself on hearing disabilities before you condemn this video due to your own ignorance............

That is exactly what I was trying to say to the ignorant.

27 posted on 03/28/2014 3:08:17 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Starstruck
The article says she was born deaf. That I don't believe.

'Nuff said. Now you are lying about what you said. Are you Harry Reid?

28 posted on 03/28/2014 3:08:21 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty
The lip-reading makes sense. I hadn’t thought of that. How wonderful it must have been to hear the sounds that go with the lip movements. I think I might have wept too.

Guarantee you I would've were that my child. She adapted very quickly to hearing again. IIRC from what my friend said, the doctors said going into the surgery to implant the cochlear device that since their daughter had hearing up to the time she was two, that she should respond quickly to "hearing again" ... the brain has a way of remembering speech I guess.

She's a teenager now and you'd never know she has that implant by talking to her. She hears and talks just like any other "hearing" kid.

29 posted on 03/28/2014 3:09:10 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Sorry. I’ve been called out as a liar on this.


30 posted on 03/28/2014 3:11:09 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Starstruck

My first cousin became profoundly deaf before age 1. She went to the Houston School for the Deaf. They would not allow any sign language. She was forced to learn to lip read and speak. It sounds cruel, but Vicki could talk and sounded very close to normal. So normal, that many people did not realize that she was deaf. She was so happy when her children could hear. As babies they learned that mom could only hear high pitch squeals. Their cries were really strange, but got their mothers attention.


31 posted on 03/28/2014 3:12:21 PM PDT by FoundinTexas
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To: Cyber Liberty
Sorry. I’ve been called out as a liar on this.

Do as I do: Just ignore the detractors. Honest to God, it's gotten so bad on here lately that I now have a list of people taped to my monitor that I will no longer engage in discussion with here on FR because they just can't handle having a civil conversation without either namecalling, or making themselves out to be superior to others.

Granted, I've done my share of namecalling on here since I joined in 1998 but I'm doing my level best to stop that and just not engage "those people" any longer. I've found if I don't engage them I don't engage in the tit for tat namecalling.

Something about getting older supposed to make us wiser. I still struggle with it but at least I'm trying.

32 posted on 03/28/2014 3:17:24 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

I’m trying too. Hang in there.


33 posted on 03/28/2014 3:24:51 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty
'Nuff said. Now you are lying about what you said. Are you Harry Reid?

Are you an idiot? What I was saying is that a person born deaf would not automatically be able to understand and speak English right away. It's a feel good story but I'm not buying it.

34 posted on 03/28/2014 3:25:48 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: usconservative

(Ya nOOb!)


35 posted on 03/28/2014 3:26:54 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: FoundinTexas
My first cousin became profoundly deaf before age 1. She went to the Houston School for the Deaf. They would not allow any sign language. She was forced to learn to lip read and speak

Right I have no problem with that. What I'm saying is someone hearing a question for the first time in their life is not likely to respond.

36 posted on 03/28/2014 3:34:21 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Starstruck
I cannot believe you read my post #3 and not see that I totally agreed with you, well before you said it. I just can't. And I was dropped as a baby. To wit:

To: kingattax

If she’s never heard before, how would she understand the days of the week? I’d think her first word after getting the implants would be, “Huh?”

3 posted on Fri Mar 28 13:58:08 2014 by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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And stuff. Please.

37 posted on 03/28/2014 3:34:57 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: miss marmelstein
She lost her hearing, she wasn’t born deaf.

Oh, for Pete's sake -- read.

Joanne Milne of Gateshead in the U.K. was born deaf because of Usher syndrome.

38 posted on 03/28/2014 4:00:31 PM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: kingattax

Popcorn ping ...


39 posted on 03/28/2014 4:52:50 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
I AM BI LATERAL COCHLEAR IMPLANT..

I RECEIVED MY IMPLANTS AT UPMC PITTSBURGH, PA.

I WAS 68 YRS.OLD WITH THE FIRST ONE AND THE SECOND ONE CAME A YEAR AND SEVEN MONTHS LATER.

AND YES I HAD MEDICARE PLUS A SECONDARY INS. SO AMERICANS ARE NOT DENIED THIS SERVICE...BUT LET ME ADD Medicare did deny me at first and the doctor went to bat for me and filed a second request (appealed my denial) and Medicare informed me that they reconsider my request and granted approval...this doctor is a ‘fighter’ for what he feels is right...so grateful for him and his crew..I love them deeply.

my implants have given me a fresh life and to my children and husband RELIEF...I began losing my hearing in my early 50 and by 60 hearing aidS did nothing for me..after a serious ear infection my audiologist and ear doctor recommended that I be tested for an implant, they did all the paper work and arranging for me and I will be forever grateful to them also...

my cochlear audiologist is a Saint and after I got ‘turned on’ and tested I had 98% hearing comprehension. It is not an easy procedure and takes a long time, and a lot of patience.. oh but Dear Lord, it is so worth it...

many ask how this lady knew what a ‘high pitch’ was, well during the testing and mapping procedure you are subject to many, many different high pitch sounds before you are ‘turned on’ that testing is difficult for many of us..but you learn from it and the end result is ...YOU HEAR...

40 posted on 03/28/2014 5:38:15 PM PDT by haircutter
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