Health News from Medical News Today: Listening And Hearing, Not The Same For Children With Cochlear Implants

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Listening And Hearing, Not The Same For Children With Cochlear Implants 29 May 2011, 10:00 am Cochlear implants can allow profoundly deaf infants to hear speech - giving them the chance to eventually learn spoken language. However, a new study shows that the children receiving the implants don't automatically know how to listen when people speak to them. Research presented this week at the Acoustical Society of America research meeting, showed that deaf babies with cochlear implants spent the same amount of time "listening" as normal-hearing infants of the same age... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.