Word: cochlear
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...Resendes heard sounds for the first time when he was nine years old. At that age, he received double cochlear implants, which nearly completely reversed the deafness with which he was born. The danger of injury kept him from participating in any contact sports—he’s picked up squash for the first time at Harvard—but he needed to find a way to have them in his life. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...April 30 sports article "Freshman Manager Becomes Teammate" incorrectly stated that West Resendes had double cochlear implants. In fact, he received only one cochlear implant...
...Slowly lost his hearing in 2000. Did his show completely deaf for two months before getting cochlear implants to help him hear callers. He can also read lips...
...Moore also likes to play Santa Claus. One child, who had been approved for one but not two cochlear implants when she started losing her hearing, received an OK for the second implant from CIGNA after her father waved the red flag of Moore's interest in the case. The filmmaker also sent $12,000 anonymously (well, not any more; it's in the movie) to a Moore-hating blogger who was going to shut down his site to pay for his wife's hospital bills. Most photogenically, Moore brought his 9/11 boat people to Cuba...
...fight over radicalism was forced on a fragile, just emerging sense of identity by technology and the law. Since 1988, the definition of who is "deaf enough" has been ratcheted up as barriers to the deaf have fallen away. Many parents have their deaf infants surgically equipped with cochlear implants; depending on how much hearing they gain, those kids will grow up with little or no connection to the deaf world. Federal law requires schools to accommodate deaf students, meaning more deaf kids can go to any high school and college they want, not just oases like Gallaudet. Those kids...