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

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

Zenek Luci was born deaf to a family in Welland, Ontario. He used hearing aids as an infant before receiving a cochlear implant in an operation, his father, Gabriel, says. "He was about one year old ...

AI model using deep transfer learning – the most advanced form of machine learning – predicted with 92% accuracy spoken language outcomes at one-to-three years after cochlear implants (implanted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...