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Cochlea Implants for the Deaf and Severely Hard of Hearing
Breaking the Sound Barrier in the Head
People who can’t hear are outsiders, cut off from normal conversation. Children born into a silent world never learn to talk. Adults who lose their hearing due to age, accident or illness are no longer able to participate in social life as they did before and are moreover often branded as slow-witted. Prof. Dr. med. Jan Maurer, Senior Consultant of the