Cochlea Implants for Deaf and Severely Hard of Hearing
Breaking the Sound Barrier in the Head - Interview with Prof. Dr. med. Jan Maurer

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.