The cochlear implant consists of two parts: a small device that is placed during a relatively short surgery, and an externally worn speech processor. The cochlear implant converts acoustic sound to an ...

Cochlear implants help people with profound hearing loss to hear sounds and speech. They have two parts: one internal and one external, which means getting them involves surgery.

Conversations with friends and loved ones was the highest mentioned (by 81%) everyday situation that would be affected by hearing loss. Here is one way to fight hearing loss: cochlear implants.

Groundbreaking cochlear implant lets gerbils 'hear' light in study that could offer new hope for the deaf Technique activates key neurons that have been manipulated to respond to light Study found ...

Cochlear implants can offer life-transforming help to adults with hearing loss, but they are even more important for children. That’s because children with hearing loss have a limited period of time ...

Cochlear implants work by bypassing damaged parts of the ear and stimulating the auditory nerve directly, according to Shelley Duncan, an audiologist at Akron Children’s Hospital.

Cochlear implants, which help 220,000 deaf people around the world hear, come with a few unfortunate side effects. Because the implants also consist of external parts (the mic, a speech processor ...