An FDA-approved clinical trial to give the gift of sound and speech to children who were born deaf is already yielding encouraging results. Read the story of Jiya Bavishi, a six-year-old girl who received an auditory brainstem implant. The implant is a microchip that receives sounds picked up by a microphone on her ear. Although doctors can’t be sure about she hears, they know for sure that she’s begun repeating recognizable sounds, and loves saying “Hi!”.
Deaf children may receive the gift of sound from a brain stem implant
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